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TY  - BOOK
ID  - 692156
TI  - Ockham's razors
PY  - 2015
SN  - 9781107692534 9781107068490 9781107705937 1107692539 1107068495 1316371530 1316365530 1107705932 9781316365533 9781316371534
PB  - Cambridge Cambridge University Press
DB  - UniCat
KW  - Logic
KW  - Ockham, of, William
KW  - Reasoning
KW  - Problem Solving
KW  - Simplicity (Philosophy)
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval
KW  - Guilelmus de Occam,
KW  - Simplicité (philosophie)
KW  - Principe d'économie (philosophie)
KW  - Résolution de problème
KW  - Guillaume d'Ockham,
KW  - Reasoning.
KW  - Problem solving.
KW  - Philosophy, Medieval.
KW  - William,
KW  - Simplicity (Philosophy).
KW  - Résolution de problème.
KW  - Guilelmus de Occam, - ca. 1285-1349
KW  - Medieval philosophy
KW  - Scholasticism
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Executive functions (Neuropsychology)
KW  - Argumentation
KW  - Ratiocination
KW  - Reason
KW  - Thought and thinking
KW  - Judgment (Logic)
KW  - Guglielmo,
KW  - Guilelmus,
KW  - Guilhelmus,
KW  - Guillaume,
KW  - Guillelmus,
KW  - Guillermo,
KW  - Occam,
KW  - Occam, Guillaume d',
KW  - Occam, William,
KW  - Occamus, Guilielmus,
KW  - Occhamus, Gulielmus,
KW  - Ockam, Guilhelmus de,
KW  - Ockham, William,
KW  - Okkam, Uilʹi︠a︡m,
KW  - Okkʻam, William,
KW  - Wilhelm,
KW  - William Okkʻam,
UR  - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:692156
AB  - Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in current physics, biology, and psychology. The razor also gets used outside of science - in everyday life and in philosophy. This book evaluates the principle and discusses its many applications. Fascinating examples from different domains provide a rich basis for contemplating the principle's promises and perils. It is obvious that simpler theories are beautiful and easy to understand; the hard problem is to figure out why the simplicity of a theory should be relevant to saying what the world is like. In this book, the ABCs of probability theory are succinctly developed and put to work to describe two 'parsimony paradigms' within which this problem can be solved.
ER  -