Ockham started to believe that the religious system is corrupt and he even denounced Pope John XXII with written charges, claiming he is no true pope. He concentrated on the Christ’s and the apostles’ poverty and logically concluded that the pronouncements are in accordance with the ones that were made by previous popes. However, he was waiting for the process to be finished and a decision to be made, he decided to study pronouncements concerning the collective poverty made by the current Pope John XXII. There were in total 49 charges that Ockham was tried for. In a misfortunate turn of events for Ockham, they were examined for heresy by John Lutterell, former chancellor of the Oxford University who considered Ockham a heretic when they were together at the university. When he was invited to hand over his writings and lectures for examination in 1324, he decided to move to Avignon. However, many strongly opposed Ockham’s stances and he had to explain them to both his provincial chapter and the Papal Court in Avignon, who accused him of being heretical. This is believed to have been the most extensive logical treatise between Aristotle and Bolzano, who lived in the 19th century. He used the next couple of years to write significant works on the topic in question, with Summa Logicae singling out as a monumental, three-volume piece. If you are interested in working with us, and have a proposal or manuscript that you would like to submit, then please have a read of our submissions guidelines.Ockham started teaching in a Franciscan school in 1321, lecturing on natural philosophy and logic. Our interest is in nurturing and developing a relationship with writers, as well as offering industry leading royalties, so as to develop a core group of strong voices who can stand up for and further develop our ability to put new ideas out there. We have a vigorous peer review process along with the editing talent to match the bigger names in publishing, but with a personal passion and dedication for promoting exciting and important ideas. If you are working on a new theory, or have a talent for explaining an already existing subject, we want to hear from you. If you back your ideas with evidence and reason, after all, it matters little who you are. Hence our submission process goes beyond asking 'who' you are and focuses instead on 'what' you've got to say. We judge each submission on the merits of the idea and the ability of the author: we're as interested in nurturing new authors as we are in promoting experienced minds. Yet this doesn't quite tell the whole story. Put simply, we publish popular science and philosophy. We were set up to publish and develop authors with a talent for this very simple principle people of all academic backgrounds and interests, but only those with an ability to either discover or explain the most interesting facets of science and philosophy in a simple and engaging manner. As a wider logical statement it means that - all else being equal - an overly complex idea should not be favoured over an effortlessly simple one. In medicine this might mean recognising that a patient presenting with the symptoms of a common cold are probably not suffering from a rare genetic disorder.

We are named after William of Ockham, an influential 14th Century philosopher, who is famed for theorising Ockham's razor - an idea that perfectly explains what we are about.Īll things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

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