The science of psychology in Ockham's oxford
pp. 315-329
in: Jenny Pelletier, Magali Roques (eds), The language of thought in late medieval philosophy, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
Ockham pioneered a radical revolution in psychology. One reason he could do so is that the science of psychology at Oxford in his day was not provided with foundations, on two counts. First, there was much less institutional pressure at Oxford to address these foundational problems, as a result of the way the curriculum was structured there (as opposed to the University of Paris). Second, psychology was not a good match for the kind of science that was developing at Oxford at the time. The upshot was that Ockham found it easy to give an alternate grounding for psychology.
