William of Ockham(C. 1285–1349) William of Ockham, the most influential philosopher of the fourteenth century, apparently was born sometime between 1280 and 1290 at the village of Ockham, in Surrey, near London. Entering the Franciscan order at...

WILLIAM OF OCKHAM (1280?–1349?), English philosopher and theologian. William of Ockham was born between 1280 and 1285 at Ockham in Surrey, England. He entered the Franciscan order and studied at the Franciscan house in Oxford but without taking...

(William Occam; ca. 1285–1347). Born in Ockham in Surrey, England, William entered a Franciscan convent at an early age. In 1306, he was ordained subdeacon at Southwark in London and began his education at Oxford, where he lectured on Peter...

c. 1285-c. 1349 William Ockham, known as William of Ockham (or Occam), had a significant effect on the decline of medieval Scholasticism, the separation of church and state, and the eventual rise of scientific thinking. Although his writing and...

. c. 1285–1349. English Franciscan theologian, born at Ockham (Surrey), who worked mainly in Oxford, Avignon and Munich. He worked against the same general background as AQUINAS and Duns SCOTUS, but he separated philosophy further from theology...

(born &circa; 1285, Ockham, Surrey?, Eng.—died 1347/49, Munich, Bavaria) English Franciscan philosopher, theologian, and political writer. A late Scholastic thinker, he is regarded as the founder of a form of nominalism, the school of thought...

William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings, IPA: /ËÉ'kÉm/) (c. 1288 - c. 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is considered, along with...