William of Ockham's Summa Logicae (The Sum of Logic), composed in the mid-1320s, is a major work in the history of Western philosophy. It was highly influential for several centuries following its appearance. Ostensibly a textbook on logic, the work is an essential resource for understanding Ockham's philosophical project at large and contains numerous innovative ideas about thought, language, and ontology that are now attracting much interest in contemporary philosophy. Despite an abundant growth in Ockham scholarship in recent decades, this Critical Guide is the first collection of essays to be devoted to the Summa Logicae. The volume covers a wide range of topics, including nominalism, metalanguage, modes of signifying, Ockham's theory of the categorical syllogism, and modal logic. It provides both fresh perspectives on existing debates and new contributions on topics that have not yet entered mainstream scholarship on Ockham.
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This Critical Guide offers new and original essays on Ockham's seminal philosophical masterpiece on logic, language, and ontology.
Introduction;
1. Metaphysical methodology in Ockham's Summa logicae I:
against the semantics-first reading of Ockham's nominalism Susan
Brower-Toland;
2. Ockham and syncategoremata Calvin G. Normore;
3. Ockham on
metalanguage J. T. Paasch;
4. Ockham's moderate modism: modes of signifying
in the summa logicae Milo Crimi;
5. Relations in Summa logicae Rondo Keele;
6. The threat of pernicious ambiguity supposition and use in Ockham's
mental speech Jon Borndholt and Sonja Schierbaum;
7. Ontology and Ockham's
account of truth conditions for tensed propositions Nate Bulthuis;
8.
Ockham's theory of the categorical syllogism Paul Thom;
9. Ockham's modal
logic Lu Jiang;
10. Theory of demonstration: what is demonstrable in a
contingent world? Joël Biard;
11. The obligationes of William of Ockham Sara
L. Uckelman;
12. Ockham on the liar paradox Riccardo Strobino;
13. Ockham on
figurative discourse Claude Panaccio; Bibliography; Index.
Claude Panaccio is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. He is the author of Ockham on Concepts (2004), Mental Language: From Plato to Ockham (English translation, 2017), and Ockham's Nominalism (2023). Jenny Pelletier is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Leuven, Belgium. She is the author of Ockham on Metaphysics: The Science of Being and God (2013).
