University, 1998) On the Power of Emperors and Popes, translated by Annabel S. Brett (Bristol, 1998) Rega Wood, Ockham on the Virtues (West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University Press, 1997) [includes translation of On the Connection of the Virtues] A Letter to the Friars Minor, and Other Writings, translated by John Kilcullen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) [includes translation of ] A Short Discourse on the Tyrannical Government, translated by John Kilcullen (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992) [translation of ] William of Ockham, [Question One of] Eight Questions on the Power of the Pope, translated by Jonathan Robinson In fiction William of Occam served as an inspiration for the creation of William of Baskerville, the main character of Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose, and is the main character of La abadía del crimen (The Abbey of Crime), a video game based upon said novel. See also Gabriel Biel Philotheus Boehner History of science#Middle Ages List of Catholic clergy scientists List of scholastic philosophers Ernest Addison Moody occam (programming language) Ockham algebra Oxford Franciscan school Rule according to higher law Terminism Notes References Further reading External links Mediaeval Logic and Philosophy, maintained by Paul Vincent Spade William of Ockham at the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy William of Ockham biography at University of St Andrews, Scotland Dialogus, text translation and studies at British Academy, UK The Nominalist Ontology of William of Ockham, with an annotated bibliography Richard Utz and Terry Barakat, "Medieval Nominalism and the Literary Questions: Selected Studies." Perspicuitas The Myth of Occam's Razor by William M. Thorburn (1918) BBC Radio 4 'In Our Time' programme on Ockham Download and listen 1287 births 1347 deaths 14th-century English writers 14th century in science 14th-century Latin writers 14th-century English mathematicians Medieval English mathematicians 14th-century philosophers Alumni of the University of Oxford Catholic clergy scientists Empiricists English philosophers English Franciscans English logicians English Christian theologians Latin commentators on Aristotle Occamism People excommunicated by the Catholic Church People from the Borough of Guildford Philosophers of language Catholic philosophers Scholastic philosophers Scholasticism Anglican saints