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William of Ockham

William of Ockham, 1285-1347. Scholastic thinker best known for his doctrine that "entities should not be unnecessarily multiplied" (Ockham's Razor). An enthusiastic Aristotelian, logician, and defender of Franciscan doctrine, he was excommunicated in 1328 by Pope John XXII.

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• - Paper on the nominalist theologian.
  
• - Brief profile of the originator of "Ockham's razor."
  
• - John Kilcullen's examination of natural law in the thought of Descartes and Ockham.
  
• - Biography of this philosopher.
  
• - An article by John Kilcullen, published in The Journal of Religious History in 1991. Examines Ockham's view of indefectibility of the Church and of papal infallibility.
  
• - Transcript of a lecture on the problem of universals and Ockham's answer.
  
• - Biographical article on the fourteenth-century Franciscan philosopher.
  
• - An overview of Ockham's thought by Paul Vincent Spade.
  
• - A Nonconformist reading of his theology.
  
• - Unsigned article which provides an overview of major concepts in Ockham.
  
  

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