Begriffe, Sätze, Dinge

Referenz und Wahrheit bei Wilhelm von Ockham
Erscheinungsjahr 1993
ISBN: 978-90-04-09889-3
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Deutsch, Band 40, 255 Seiten, Gewicht: 646 g

Reihe: Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters

This volume gives an introduction to William Ockham's theory of signs, his ontology, his epistemology, and the interrelations between these fields. Some recent results of analytic philosophy turn out to be useful instruments for the interpretation of Ockham's thought.
Part one contains a presentation of the basic concepts of Ockham's semantics. It is followed by an investigation of his ontology, including a comparison with modern ontology. Part three deals with the common and different elements in the conceptions of supposition and of quantification. Part four shows some similarities of Ockham's views on the truth of sentences with those of Davidson. The final part presents Ockham's epistemology within the discussion of his contemporaries and confronts it with actual issues raised by Quine and Putnam.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kaufmann, M.

Über Autor(innen)

Matthias Kaufmann, Priv.-Doz. (1992) is a lecturer of philosophy at the Institut für Philosophie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. His dissertational thesis (Recht ohne Regel? Die philosophischen Prinzipien in Carl Schmitts Staats- und Rechtslehre) was published in 1988.