Ockham's Razors
A User's Manual
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 23 July 2015
- ISBN 9781107692534
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages322 pages
- Size 247x175x15 mm
- Weight 660 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 42 b/w illus. 0
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Short description:
This book uses philosophy, science and probability to analyse why simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex.
MoreLong description:
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.
'Sober's treatment of the role of Ockham's razor in scientific&&&160;methodology is, quite simply,&&&160;the best that one can&&&160;find in the philosophical literature today.&&&160;With excursions into such diverse topics as model construction, Bayesian statistics, phylogenetic inference, philosophy of mind, and general philosophical methodology, readers of all stripes will find this book rewarding.' James M. Joyce, Cooper Harold Langford Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. A history of parsimony in thin slices (from Aristotle to Morgan); 2. The probabilistic turn; 3. Parsimony in evolutionary biology - phylogenetic inference; 4. Parsimony in psychology - chimpanzee mind-reading; 5. Parsimony in philosophy; References.
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