Books
Ockham’s Treatise on Predestination, God’s Foreknowledge, and Future Contingents (translation, introduction, notes, bibliographies; with Norman Kretzmann) — Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1969. Second edition (new introduction) — Hackett Publishing Company, 1983.
Paul of Venice, On the Truth and Falsity of Propositions and On the Significatum of a Proposition (translation, notes; ed. Francesco del Punta) — London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 1977.
William Ockham (2 volumes) — Notre Dame University Press, 1987. Italian translation of Chapter 12 in Logica e Linguaggio nel Medioevo (ed. Riccardo Fedriga and Sara Puggioni) — Milano: Edizioni Universitarie di Lettere Economia Diretto, 1993, 319–339.
The Philosophical Theology of John Duns Scotus: A Collection of Essays by Allan B. Wolter (ed.) — Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.
The Problem of Evil (ed. with Robert Merrihew Adams) — Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God — Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999.
What Sort of Human Nature? Medieval Philosophy and the Systematics of Christology (Aquinas Lecture 1999) — Milwaukee: Marquette University Press, 1999.
Articles
“Is the Existence of God a ‘Hard’ Fact?” — Philosophical Review 76 (1967), 492–503. Reprint — God, Foreknowledge, and Freedom, ed. John Martin Fischer (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1989), 74–85. Reprint — Readings in Philosophy of Religion, 2nd edition, ed. Baruch A. Brody (Prentice Hall, 1992), 437–45.
“Intuitive Cognition, Certainty, and Scepticism in William Ockham” — Traditio 26 (1970), 389–98.
“Was Anselm a Realist? The Monologium” — Franciscan Studies 31 (1971), 5–14.
“Universal Salvation: A Reply to Mr. Bettis” — Religious Studies 7, 245–49.
“Did Ockham Know of Material and Strict Implication? A Reconsideration” — Franciscan Studies 33 (1973), 5–37.
“Hell and the God of Justice” — Religious Studies 11, 433–47.
“What Does Ockham Mean by ‘Supposition’?” — Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28 (1976), 375–91.
“Divine Justice, Divine Love, and the Life to Come” — Crux 13 (1976–77), 12–18.
“Ockham on Identity and Distinction” — Franciscan Studies 36 (1976), 5–74.
“Ockham’s Nominalism and Unreal Entities” — Philosophical Review (1977), 144–76.
“Ockham’s Theory of Natural Signification” — Monist 61 (1978), 444–59.
“Was Ockham a Humean about Efficient Causality?” — Franciscan Studies 37 (1979), 5–48.
“Universals in the Early Fourteenth Century” — Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, ed. Norman Kretzmann and Anthony Kenny (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 411–39.
“Relations, Subsistence, and Inherence, or Was Ockham a Nestorian in Christology?” — Nous 16 (1982), 62–75.
“Redemptive Suffering: A Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil” — Rationality, Religious Belief, and Moral Commitment, ed. Robert Audi and William Wainwright (Cornell University Press, 1986), 248–67.
“Is To Will It As Bad As To Do It? The Fourteenth Century Debate” (with Rega Wood) — Franciscan Studies 39 (1981), 5–60.
“The Metaphysics of the Incarnation in Some Fourteenth Century Franciscans” — Essays Honoring Allan B. Wolter (Franciscan Institute, 1985), 21–57.
“Things versus ‘Hows,’ or Ockham on Predication and Ontology” — How Things Are, ed. James Bogen and D. Reidel (Dordrecht: ?, 1981), 175–88.
“Duns Scotus’ Parisian Proof for the Existence of God” (with Allan B. Wolter) — Franciscan Studies 40 (1982), 248–321.
“William Ockham: Voluntarist or Naturalist” — Studies in Medieval Philosophy, ed. John Wippel (Catholic University Press, 1987), 219–47.
“Duns Scotus on the Goodness of God” — Faith and Philosophy (1987), 486–505.
“Problems of Evil: More Advice to Christian Philosophers” — Faith and Philosophy (1988), 121–43.
“The Structure of Ockham’s Moral Theory” — Franciscan Studies 24 (1986), 1–35.
“Separation and Reversal in Luke-Acts” — Philosophy and the Christian Faith, ed. Thomas Morris (Notre Dame University Press, 1988), 92–117.
“Theodicy without Blame” — Philosophical Topics 16 (1988), 215–45.
“Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God” — Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Volume 63 (1989), 299–310. Reprint — The Problem of Evil, ed. Marilyn McCord Adams and Robert Merrihew Adams (Oxford University Press, 1990).
“Ockham’s Individualisms” — Die Gegenwart Ockhams, ed. W. Vossenkuhl and R. Schonberger (VCH Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1990), 3–24.
“St. Anselm on the Goodness of God” — Medioevo 13 (1987), 75–102.
“Forgiveness: A Christian Model” — Faith and Philosophy 8 (1991), 277–304. Reprint — Christian Theism and Moral Philosophy, ed. Michael Beaty, Carlton Fisher, and Mark Nelson (Mercer University Press, 1998), 77–106.
“Sin as Uncleanness” — Philosophical Perspectives: Philosophy of Religion (1991), 1–27.
“Ockham on Truth” — Medioevo 16 (1990), 143–72.
“St. Anselm on Truth” — Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 1.2 (1990), 353–72.
“Symbolic Value and the Problem of Evil: Honor and Shame” — Interpretation in Religion, ed. Shlomo Biderman and Ben-Ami Scharfstein (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1992), 259–82.
“Aristotle and the Sacrament of the Altar: A Crisis in Medieval Theology” — Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume 17 (1991), 195–249.
“Philosophy and the Bible: The Areopagus Speech” — Faith and Philosophy (1992), 135–150.
“Julian of Norwich on the Tender Loving Care of Mother Jesus” — Our Knowledge of God, ed. K.J. Clark (Kluwer Academic Publishers), 203–19.
“Aesthetic Goodness as a Solution to the Problem of Evil” — God, Truth, and Reality: Essays in Honor of John Hick, ed. Arvind Sharma (London: Macmillan Press / New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 46–61.
“The Role of Miracles in the Structure of Luke-Acts” — Hermes and Athena, ed. Eleonore Stump and Thomas Flint (Notre Dame University Press, 1993), 235–273.
“Fides Quaerens Intellectum: St. Anselm’s Method in Philosophical Theology” — Faith and Philosophy (1992), 409–35.
“God and Evil: Polarities of a Problem” — Philosophical Studies 69 (1993), 39–58.
“The Problem of Hell: A Problem of Evil for Christians” — Reasoned Faith: A Festschrift for Norman Kretzmann, ed. Eleonore Stump (Cornell University Press, 1993), 301–327.
“The Resurrection of the Body according to Three Medieval Aristotelians: Thomas Aquinas, John Duns Scotus, William Ockham” — Philosophical Topics 20 (1993), 1–33.
“Duns Scotus on the Will as Rational Potency” — Via Scoti: Methodologica ad mentem Joannis Duns Scoti, ed. Leonardo Sileo (Roma: PAA-Edizioni Antonianum, 1995), 839–854.
“St. Anselm on Evil: De Casu Diaboli” — Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 3.2 (1992), 423–451.
“Introduction” — Peter Abelard: Ethical Writings: Ethics and Dialogue between a Philosopher, a Jew, and a Christian, tr. Paul V. Spade (Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1995), vii-xxvi.
“Satisfying Mercy: Anselm’s Cur Deus Homo Reconsidered” — The Modern Schoolman 72 (1995), 91–108.
“Praying the Proslogion” — The Rationality of Belief and the Plurality of Faith, ed. Thomas Senor (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995), 13–39.
“Common Nature and Instants of Nature: Ockham’s Critique of Scotus Reconsidered” — Veritas [Journal of Kyodai Medieval Society, Kyoto, Japan] 14 (1995), 55–67.
“Scotus and Ockham on the Connection of the Virtues” — John Duns Scotus: Metaphysics and Ethics, ed. Honnefelder, Wood, and Dreyer (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1996), 499–522.
“Dissolution and Integrity in the Fourteenth Century” — Tradition and Ecstacy: Agony in the Fourteenth Century, ed. Nancy van Deusen (Ottawa: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1997), 99–108.
“Evil and the God Who Does Nothing in Particular” — Religion and Morality, ed. D.Z. Phillips (London: Macmillan Press / New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996), 107–131; Comments and Responses, Voice F, 310–321, esp. 310–316.
“Memory and Intuition: A Focal Debate in Fourteenth Century Cognitive Psychology: Introduction, edition, and translation of Scotus’ Ordinatio IV, d.45, q.3” (with Allan B. Wolter) — Franciscan Studies 53 (1993), 175–230 [actually published 1997].
“Chalcedonian Christology: A Christian Solution to the Problem of Evil” — Philosophy and Theological Discourse, ed. Stephen T. Davis (Hampshire: Macmillan Press, 1997), 173–198.
“Ockham on Final Causality: Muddying the Waters” — Franciscan Studies 56 (1998), 1–46.
“Final Causality and Explanation in Scotus’ De Primo Principio” — Nature in Medieval European Thought, ed. Chumaru Koyama (1998), 221–264 [volume in Japanese]. English version — Nature in Medieval Thought: Some Approaches East and West, ed. Chumaru Koyama (Leiden: Brill, 2000), 153–183.
“Reviving Philosophical Theology: Some Medieval Models” — Miscellanea Mediaevalia 26: Was ist Philosophie im Mittelalter?, ed. Jan A. Aertsen and Andreas Speer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1998), 60–68.
“Romancing the Good: God and the Self according to St. Anselm of Canterbury” — The Augustinian Tradition, ed. Gareth Matthews (University of California Press, 1998), 91–109.
“Elegant Necessity, Prayerful Disputation: Method in Cur Deus Homo” — Studia Anselmiana: Cur Deus Homo (Roma, 1999), 367–396.
“Ockham on Will, Nature, and Morality” — Cambridge Companion to Ockham, ed. Paul Vincent Spade (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 245–272.
“History of Philosophy as Tutor to Christian Philosophy” — The Questions of Christian Philosophy Today (Bronx: Fordham University Press, 1999), 37–60.
“Re-reading De Grammatico, or Anselm’s Introduction to Aristotle’s Categories” — Documenti e Studi sulla Tradizione Filosofica Medievale 11 (2000), 83–112.
Reference
“William Ockham” — Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology (Munich: Philosophia Verlag, 1991), 2:?.
“Anselm of Canterbury, St.” — Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 26–28.
“Ockham, William” — Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 543–545.
“Ockham’s Razor, Parsimony, Principle of” — Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 545.
“Ockham, William of” — Companion to Epistemology, ed. Jonathan Dancy and Ernest Sosa (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1992), 313–14.
“Ockham, William” — Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995), 371–373.
“Anselm of Canterbury, St.” — Companion to Metaphysics, ed. Ernest Sosa and Jaegwon Kim (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1995), 12–13.
“Hylomorphism” — Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford University Press, 1995), 384–385.
“Ockham’s Razor” — Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford University Press, 1995), 633.
“William Ockham” — Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford University Press, 1995), 633.
“Anselm of Canterbury, St.” — Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed. Ted Honderich (Oxford University Press, 1995), 37–38.
“The Problem of Evil” — Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1998), 3: 466–472.
“Hell” — Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward Craig (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1998), 4: 329–333.
Reviews
William Ockham, Scriptum in Librum Primum Sententiarum: Ordinatio, Vol. I: Prologus, ed. Gedeon Gál and Stephen Brown (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1967) — Philosophical Review (1970), 268–74.
Peter Abelard’s Ethics, ed. D.E. Luscombe (New York: Oxford University Press, 1971) — Philosophical Review (1973), 404–9.
D.P. Henry, Commentary on Anselm’s De Grammatico (Reidel, 1974) — Archives Internationales d’Histoire des Sciences (1976), 311–17.
Gordon Leff, William Ockham: The Metamorphosis of Scholastic Discourse (Manchester University Press, 1975) — Journal of the History of Philosophy 15 (1977), 334–9.
William Ockham, Scriptum in Librum Sententiarum: Ordinatio, Vol. III, ed. G. Etzkorn (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1977) — Philosophical Review (1979), 117–21.
Gordon Leff, The Dissolution of the Medieval Outlook: An Essay on the Intellectual and Spiritual Change in the Fourteenth Century (New York University Press, 1976) — Journal of the History of Philosophy 18 (1980), 83–87.
G. de Ockham, Opera Philosophica II, ed. G. Gál, S. Brown, et al. (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1978) — Philosophical Review (1980), 129–37.
G. de Ockham, Opera Theologica IV, ed. G. Etzkorn and F. Kelly (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1979) — Philosophical Review (1983), 93–97.
G. de Ockham, Opera Theologica IX, ed. J. Wey (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1980) — Philosophical Review (1983), 98–103.
G. de Ockham, Opera Theologica V-VI, ed. G. Gál and R. Wood (V), G. Etzkorn and F. Kelly (VI) (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1981–1982) — Philosophical Review (1986), 474–80.
G. de Ockham, Opera Theologica VII, ed. R. Wood and G. Gál, assisted by R. Green (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1984) — Philosophical Review (1988), 417–24.
Adam de Wodeham, Lectura Secunda, vols. 1–3, ed. Rega Wood and Gedeon Gál (St. Bonaventure: Franciscan Institute, 1990) — Philosophical Review 102 (1993), 588–594.
Gregory Schufreider, Confessions of a Rational Mystic: Anselm’s Early Writings (Purdue University Series in the History of Philosophy; West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 1994) — Speculum (1996), 242–245.
Other
“Courting a Crisis” [sermon] — Princeton Seminary Bulletin 13 (1992), 199–203.
“Holy Conflict” [sermon] — The Living Pulpit 3.3 (1994), 40–41.
“Love of Learning, Reality of God” [spiritual autobiography] — Philosophers Speak of God, ed. Thomas V. Morris (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994), 137–161.
“Eucharistic Prayer for the Powerless, the Oppressed, the Unusual” [Eucharistic prayer] — Equal Rites: Lesbian and Gay Worship, Ceremonies, and Celebrations, ed. Kittredge Cherry and Zalmon Sherwood (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 1995), 111–113.
“Hurricane Spirit, Toppling Taboos [article]” — Ourselves, Our Souls and Bodies, ed. Charles Hefling (Cowley Press, 1996), 129–141.
“The Love of Christ Controls Us!” [sermon/article] — Trinity College Bulletin: Annual Journal of Trinity College and the Faculty of Divinity in the University of Glasgow n.s. no.14 (1997), 60–64.
“The Wild Ones” [sermon] — The Living Pulpit 9.1 (2000), 14–15.