Elliott Sober

Ockham's Razors

A User's Manual

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book uses philosophy, science and probability to analyse why simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 179mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9781107068490
• ISBN-10: 1107068495
• Artikelnr.: 42517443

Autorenporträt

Elliott Sober is Hans Reichenbach Professor and William F. Vilas Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison. In 2014 the Philosophy of Science Association awarded him the Carl Gustav Hempel Award for lifetime achievement in philosophy of science. His publications include: Evidence and Evolution: The Logic Behind the Science (2008), Did Darwin Write the Origin Backwards?: Philosophical Essays on Darwin's Theory (2011) and Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior (1998, co-authored with David Wilson).

Inhaltsangabe

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.