![]() WILLIAM OF OCKHAM EMPIRICISM OPERA PHILSOPHICA SERIESHis text of the Tractatus de praedestinatione was first published in 1945 in Franciscan Institute Publications, Text Series No. Father Philotheus Boehner, O.F.M., who came to the Franciscan Institute from Germany before the outbreak of World War II, first conceived of and began work on the critical edition. Two of the editors of individual works in the present volume are deceased. Since the Opera politica Guillelmi de Ockham were published in three octavo volumes by the University of Manchester Press, we may expect to have very shortly substantially all the works of the Venerable Inceptor, thanks to the exceptional industry of a team of highly qualified researchers as well as substantial grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the De Rance Corporation. Editors are also assigned and are already at work on the other major non-political writings, notably the Quodlibet and commentaries on Aristotle’s Physics. Volume 1 of the philosophical opera contains the monumental Summa Logicae, and volume 3 will also appear this year, thus completing with the present volume the edition of the most important of Ockham’s logical works. The final portion is scheduled to appear early in 1979 as volume 4 of the Opera theologica. Three of these contain the first portion of Ockham’s most important theological work, the Ordinatio of his "commentary" on book 1 of the Sentences. Since 1967 five quarto volumes, totaling some three thousand four hundred pages, have appeared. The project itself is something of a phenomenon in the area of critical editions of medieval Latin texts in terms of the rapidity at which quality volumes are produced at remarkably reasonable costs. ![]() Bonaventure University under the general editorship of Gedeon Gál, O.F.M. The latest volume in the splendid critical edition of the Opera philosophica et theologica of William of Ockham in progress at the Franciscan Institute of St. ![]()
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