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Rondo Keele - Ockham on Concepts - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:4 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.4 659-660 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Rondo Keele Louisiana Scholars' College Claude Panaccio. Ockham on Concepts. Ashgate Studies in Medieval Philosophy. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. Pp.xi + 197. Cloth, $79.95. At the simplest level, Ockham on Concepts is just what its title suggests: an interpretation and reconstruction of the views of William of Ockham on the subject of conceptus. Claude Panaccio is a well-respected scholar who has done foundational work on this topic for years. Ockham's opinions on the nature of concepts have been an important area of research for decades, in part because his theory of concepts went through several stages of development, and charting these stages played a central role in dating his texts. Beginning in the 1970s, Ockham's theory of concepts..