William of Ockham
(c.1287-1347)

Encyclopedia articles:  Gedeon Gal (NCE), Andre Goddu (HFT), Ernest A. Moody (EP), Claude Panaccio (REP), R. L. Poole (DNB), William Turner (CE)  [Abbreviation key]

Jan P. Beckmann. Ockham-Bibliographie 1900-1990. Hamburg: F. Meiner, 1992.

[Valens Heynck. "Ockham-Literatur 1919-1949" Franziskanische Studien 32 (1950) 164-83.—James P. Reilly. " Ockham Bibliography: 1950-1967" Franciscan Studies 28 (1968) 197-214.—Allessandro Ghisalberti. "Bibliografia su Guglielmo di Occam dal 1950 al 1968" Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica 61 (1969) 273-84, 545-71]

Leon Baudry. Lexique Philosophique de Guillaume d’Ockham. Paris: Lethielleux, 1958.

Opera Philosophica. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1974-88. (7 v.)

Opera Theologica. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1967-86. (10 v.)

Philotheus Boehner (ed.) The Tractatus De Successivis, attributed to William Ockham, Edited with a Study on the Life and Works of Ockham. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1944. [Franciscan Institute Publications ; 1]

Philotheus Boehner (ed.) The Tractatus De Praedestinatione et De Praescientia Dei et De Futuris Contigentibus, edited with a Study on the Medieval Problem of a Three-Valued Logic. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1945. [Franciscan Institute Publications ; 2]

Opera Politica (v.1-3 University of Manchester, 1940-63 ; v.4 The British Academy, 1997) [1. Octo Quaestiones De Potestate Papae. An Princeps. Consultatio De Causa Matrimoniali. Opus Nonaginta Dierum (1-6).—2. Opus Nonaginta Dierum (7-124).—3. Epistola ad Fratres Minores. Tractatus Contra Ioannem. Tractatus Contra Benedictum.—4. Compendium Errorum Ioannis Papae XXII. Breviloquium De Principu Tyrannico. De Imperatorum et Pontificium Potestate. Allegattiones De Potestate Imperiali. De Electione Caroli Quarti.]

Marilyn McCord Adams & Norman Kretzmann (trs.) Predestination, God’s Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents [Tractatus De Praedestinatione]. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969.

T. B. Birch (tr.) The De Sacramento Altaris of William of Ockham. Burlington, IA: Lutheran Literary Board, 1930.

Philotheus Boehner (tr.) Ockham: Philosophical Writings. New York: Nelson, 1957.

Julian Davies (tr.) A Compendium of Ockham’s Teaching: A Translation of the Tractatus de Principiis Theologiae. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1998.

Julian Davies (tr.) Ockham on Aristotle’s Physics: A Translation of Ockham’s Brevis Summa Libri Physicorum. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1989.

Alfred J. Freddoso & Francis E. Kelly (trs.) Quodlibetal Questions. New Haven: Yale university Press, 1991. (2 v.)

Alfred J. Freddoso & Henry Schuurman (trs.) Ockham’s Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae. Notre Dame: University of Notre dame Press, 1980.

John Kilcullen (tr.) Kilcullen & Arthur S. McGrade (eds.) A Letter to the Friars Minor and Other Writings. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

John Kilcullen (tr.) Arthur S. McGrade (ed.) A Short Discourse on the Tyranical Government [Breviloquium De Principatu Tyrannico]. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992.

John Kilcullen & John Scott (trs.) The Work of Ninety Days [CD-ROM] Bowling Green, OH: Philosophy Documentation Center.

Michael J. Loux (tr.) Ockham’s theory of Terms: Part I of the Summa Logicae. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1974.

Rega Wood (tr.) Ockham on the Virtues. West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1997. [Latin text, translation & commentary of selected passages]

Marilyn McCord Adams. William Ockham. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1987. (2 v.)

Philotheus Boehner. Collected Articles on Ockham. St. Bonaventure, NY: Franciscan Institute, 1958.

Gedeon Gal. "William of Ockham Died Impenitent in April 1347" Franciscan Studies 42 (1982) 90-95.

Andre Goddu. The Physics of William of Ockham. Leiden: Brill, 1984.

International Colloquium on the Thought and Writings of William of Ockham (1985 October 10-12 : St. Bonaventure, NY). (3 v.). Franciscan Studies 22-24 (1984-6)

Armand Maurer. The Philosophy of William of Ockham in the Light of its Principles. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1999.

Arthur S. McGrade. The Political Thought of William of Ockham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.

Ernest A. Moody. The Logic of William of Ockham. New York: Sheed & Ward, 1935.

John J. Ryan. The Nature, Structure and Function of the Church in William of Ockham. Missoula, MT: Scholars Press, 1979.

Paul Spade (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Ockham. New York: Cambridge University, 1999.

Katherine H. Tachau. Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham: Optics, Epistimology and the Foundations of Semantics 1250-1345. Leiden: Brill, 1988.

Compiled by Paul J. Spaeth