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William of Ockham (Occam, c. 1280—c. 1349) William of Ockham, also known as William Ockham and William of Occam, was a fourteenth-century English philosopher. Historically, Ockham has been cast as the outstanding opponent of Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274): Aquinas perfected the great “medieval synthesis” of faith and reason and was canonized ...
William of Ockham, or William of Occam, (born c. 1285, Ockham, Surrey?, Eng.—died 1347/49, Munich, Bavaria), English Franciscan philosopher, theologian, and political writer. A late Scholastic thinker, he is regarded as the founder of a form of nominalism, the school of thought that denies that universals have any reality apart from the ...
Jun 29, 2015 · William of Ockham (c. 1285/7–c. 1347) was an English Franciscan philosopher who challenged scholasticism and the papacy, thereby hastening the end of the medieval period. His claim to fame was “Ockham’s Razor,” the principle of parsimony, according to which plurality should not be posited without necessity.
Jun 8, 2018 · The English philosopher and theologian William of Ockham (ca. 1284-1347) was the most important intellectual figure in the 14th century and one of the major figures in the history of philosophy. The first half of the 14th century was one of the most active, creative periods in medieval thought.
William of Ockham (b. c. 1287–d. 1347) is one of the giants of medieval philosophy. He was an innovative and controversial thinker who lived an extraordinarily eventful life.
William of Ockham or Occam OFM ( / ˈɒkəm / OK-əm; Latin: Gulielmus Occamus; c. 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and Catholic theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey.
Jan 1, 2020 · William of Ockham, most famous for “Ockham’s Razor,” was an English Franciscan theological and philosophical author whose academic work was mostly done in England. He never became a Master of Theology, but he did teach at Oxford from 1317 to 1319, commenting there on the “Sentences of Peter Lombard.”
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