WILLIAM OCKHAM

Was an English philosopher and theologian, was a Franciscan monk.

William was a great philosopher and thinker English was called<nominalist ever greater lived>. He was made a more contribution to science and modern intellectual culture is the principle of parsimony in the construction of theories and explanation, which came to known as"Razor of Ockham " He was a pioneer of nominalism, some consider him the father of modern epistemology and modern philosophy in general.

Ockham is also increasingly recognized as an important contributor to the development of Western constitutional ideas.

Works:

Philosophy:

Scriptum in quatuor libros Sententiarum. Contiene el Ordinatio y Quaestiones in II, III, IV Sententiarum (1318 - 1323).
Expositio aurea super totam artem veterem: Expositio super Porphyrium; Expositio super Librum Praedicamentorum; Expositio super duos Libros Perihermeneias; Expositio super duos Libros Elenchorum (después de 1318).
Tractatus de praedestinatione et praescientia Dei et de futuris contingentibus (1318 - 1323).
Logica maior o Summa logicae (1324 - 1328).
Elementarium logicae o Logica media.

Religion:

Questiones earumque decisiones.
Quodlibeta septem (antes de 1327).
Tractatus de corpore Christi o Tractatus primus de quantitate (después de 1323).
Tractatus de Sacramento Altaris o Tractatus secundus de quantitate (después de 1323).
Centiloqium theologicum (obra dudosa).
De principiis theologiae (obra dudosa).

Policy:

Opus nonaginta dierum (1330-1332).
De dogmatibus papae Johannis XXII
Contra Johannem XXII"
Compendium errorum Johannis papae XXII"
Tractatus contra Benedictum
An princeps, pro suo succursu, scilet guerrae, possit recipere bona ecclesiarum, etiam invito papa (escrito entre 1338 y 1339)
Dialogus inter magistrum et discipulum de imperatorum et pontificum potestate o Dialogus in tres partes diatinctus (1342-43).
Breviloquium de principatu tyrannico super divina et humana, specialiter autem super imperium et subjetos imperio a quibusdam vocatis summis pontificibus usurpato (1339 - 1340)

In the fiction William of Ockham used as inspiration for the detective monastic William of Baskerville in The name of the rose of Umberto Eco,which was using the logic of similar form and, as William,it he had faced accusations of heresy.

Credits:Enciclopy and a book about William Ockham