Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...
William of Ockham is the medieval philosopher who gave us what is perhaps the world’s only metaphysical knife. Raised by Franciscan friars and educated at Oxford in the late 13th century, he focused ...
“Every now and then the elaborate elite consensus is wrong,” writes Tim Harford in “How populism became popular” (Spectrum, Life & Arts, November 15). Goodness! I almost spilt my coffee reading this, ...
A new article argues that by relying too much on parsimony in modeling, scientists make mistakes and miss opportunities. Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the ...
"Critical edition of the Tractatus ... based on the one previously printed text and eight manuscripts ... The printed edition ... is to be foound in the Expositio aurea of William Ockham, edited by Fr ...
Every college philosophy major knows about Ockham’s razor—the dictum that if you’ve got two hypotheses you should go with the one that makes the fewest number of assumptions. A common short-cut to ...
National Gallery of Canada, 1989. National Gallery of Canada 380 Sussex Drive, P.O. Box 427, Station A Ottawa Ontario Canada K1N 9N4 Accession Number: 15811 ...
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