William Ockham on metaphysics : the science of being and God / / by Jenny E. Pelletier.

• Superior document: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 109
• Author: Pelletier, Jenny E.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; Bd. 109.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (309 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; 1 Metaphysics as a Science /; 2 The Concept of Being /; 3 The Predication of the Term ‘Being’ /; 4 Metaphysics and Theology /; Conclusion /; Bibliography /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-289 ) and index.
• ISBN: 1283854368; 9004230165
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Jenny E. Pelletier.

In William Ockham on Metaphysics , Jenny Pelletier offers an account of Ockham's concept of metaphysics as it emerges throughout his philosophical and theological work. She argues that Ockham (c. 1287-1347) believed metaphysics to be a fruitful branch of philosophy and gives a preliminary description of its distinctive subject-matter. Metaphysics is the science that studies all beings and their most general properties. Ockham was considered by some to be profoundly skeptical of metaphysics. Recent scholarship tends to focus on regional metaphysical issues (e.g. universals, relations), logic or semantics, theory of cognition, concepts, mental language. Jenny Pelletier provides a positive interpretation of Ockham on metaphysics as such that enriches our current understanding of this seminal medieval thinker.