Download or read book Ockham and Ockhamism written by William J. Courtenay and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of changing assessments of Nominalism and its meanings before Ockham, this book examines the reception of Ockhama (TM)s thought at Oxford and Paris, the crisis over Ockhamism at Paris around 1340, and the legacy of Ockhamist thought into the sixteenth century.