Abstract

This chapter radically revises the landscape of a central, well-studied debate in Ockham scholarship, the question of how and to what extent Ockham disagreed with his contemporaries about the objects of propositional attitudes. By clarifying the positions of Ockham, Walter Chatton and Robert Holcot (1290-1349) on the role played by objects of propositional attitude relations, the author shows how these three thinkers, previously assumed by almost all scholars to be at odds, are actually talking past one another in virtue of their distinct conceptions and aims. If correct, the discovery of this will completely reshape our understanding of these vital Oxford debates in philosophy of mind.

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