The present work is based on my doctoral research, which was conducted
under the supervision of Russell L. Friedman at the Institute of Philosophy,
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. I would like to express my
sincere gratitude to him for his ever constructive and generous support –
academic as well as personal – throughout my doctorate.
I am deeply indebted to Claude Panaccio, who invited me to join the
Centre de recherche du Canada en théorie de la connaissance at the
Université de Québec à Montréal in Canada as a postdoctoral researcher
(2011–12) in order to prepare this book. I benefited enormously from his
incisive criticism and extensive expertise on Ockham’s thought.