Includes bibliographical references ( p. 375-395) and index.

Contents:

Introduction / Paul Vincent Spade --The Academic and Intellectual Worlds of Ockham / William J. Courtenay --Some Aspects of Ockham's Logic / Calvin G. Normore --Semantics and Mental Language / Claude Panaccio --Is There Synonymy in Ockham's Mental Language? / David Chalmers--Ockhams' Nominalist Metaphysics / Paul Vincent Spade --Ockham's Semantics and Ontology of the Categories / Gyula Klima --Ockham's Philosophy of Nature / Andre� Goddu --The Mechanisms of Cognition / Eleonore Sump --Ockham's Misunderstood Theory of Intuitive and Abstractive Cognition / Elizabeth Karger --Ockham's Ethical Theory / Peter King --Ockham on Will, Nature, and Morality / Marilyn McCord Adams--Natural Law and Moral Omnipotence / A.S. McGrade --The Political Writings / John Kilcullen--Ockham on Faith and Reason / Alfred J. Freddoso--Ockham's Repudiation of Pelagianism / Rega Wood.

This is a discussion of William Ockham's thought: logic, language, metaphysics and natural philosophy, epistemology, ethics, action theory, political thought and theology.