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== Further reading == {{Refbegin|30em}} * {{Cite book |title=Ockham's Razor: A Historical and Philosophical Analysis of Ockham's Principle of Parsimony |last=Ariew |first=Roger |publisher=Champaign-Urbana, University of Illinois |year=1976}} * {{Cite book |title=Matter and Consciousness |last=Churchland |first=Paul M. |publisher=[[MIT Press]] |year=1984 |isbn=978-0-262-53050-7 |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |author-link=Paul Churchland}} * {{Cite book |title=What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery |title-link=What Mad Pursuit: A Personal View of Scientific Discovery |last=Crick |first=Francis H. C. |publisher=[[Basic Books]] |year=1988 |isbn=978-0-465-09137-9 |location=New York, New York |author-link=Francis Crick}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Dowe |first1=David L. |last2=Steve Gardner |last3=Graham Oppy |date=December 2007 |title=Bayes not Bust! Why Simplicity is no Problem for Bayesians |url=http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2877/1/DoweGardnerOppy_draftBayesNotBust.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2877/1/DoweGardnerOppy_draftBayesNotBust.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live |journal=British Journal for the Philosophy of Science |volume=58 |issue=4 |pages=709–754 |doi=10.1093/bjps/axm033 |s2cid=8863978 }} * {{Cite book |title=Pattern Classification |last1=Duda |first1=Richard O. |last2=Peter E. Hart |last3=David G. Stork |publisher=[[John Wiley & Sons|Wiley-Interscience]] |year=2000 |isbn=978-0-471-05669-0 |edition=2nd |pages=487–489}} * {{Cite journal |last=Epstein |first=Robert |year=1984 |title=The Principle of Parsimony and Some Applications in Psychology |journal=Journal of Mind Behavior |volume=5 |pages=119–130}} * {{Cite journal |last1=Hoffmann |first1=Roald |last2=Vladimir I. Minkin |last3=Barry K. Carpenter |year=1997 |title=Ockham's Razor and Chemistry |url=http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/3/hoffman.htm |journal=Hyle: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry |volume=3 |pages=3–28 |access-date=14 April 2006 |archive-date=14 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180714163131/http://www.hyle.org/journal/issues/3/hoffman.htm |url-status=live }} * {{Cite book |title=Philosophy of Mind |last=Jacquette |first=Dale |publisher=[[Prentice Hall]] |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-13-030933-4 |location=Engleswoods Cliffs, New Jersey |pages=34–36}} * {{Cite book |url=http://omega.math.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html |title=Probability Theory: The Logic of Science |last=Jaynes |first=Edwin Thompson |year=1994 |isbn=978-0-521-59271-0 |chapter=Model Comparison and Robustness |publisher=Cambridge University Press |author-link=Edwin Thompson Jaynes |chapter-url=http://omega.math.albany.edu:8008/ETJ-PS/cc24f.ps |access-date=24 November 2003 |archive-date=24 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181024011719/http://omega.math.albany.edu:8008/JaynesBook.html |url-status=live }} * {{Cite journal |last1=Jefferys |first1=William H. |last2=Berger, James O. |year=1991 |title=Ockham's Razor and Bayesian Statistics |journal=American Scientist |volume=80 |pages=64–72}} (Preprint available as "[http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/papers/ockham.pdf Sharpening Occam's Razor on a Bayesian Strop] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050304065538/http://quasar.as.utexas.edu/papers/ockham.pdf |date=4 March 2005 }}"). * {{Cite book |title=Realistic Rationalism |last=Katz |first=Jerrold |publisher=MIT Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-262-11229-1}} * {{Cite book |title=The Development of Logic |last1=Kneale |first1=William |last2=Martha Kneale |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1962 |isbn=978-0-19-824183-6 |location=London |page=243}} * {{Cite book |url=http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html |title=Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms |last=MacKay |first=David J. C. |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2003 |isbn=978-0-521-64298-9 |bibcode=2003itil.book.....M |author-link=David J.C. MacKay |access-date=24 February 2016 |archive-date=17 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160217105359/http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/mackay/itila/book.html |url-status=live }} * {{Cite journal |last=Maurer |first=A. |year=1984 |title=Ockham's Razor and Chatton's Anti-Razor |journal=Mediaeval Studies |volume=46 |pages=463–475 |doi=10.1484/J.MS.2.306670}} * {{Cite encyclopedia |year=2005 |title=Søren Kierkegaard |encyclopedia=[[Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy]] |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/ |access-date=14 April 2006 |last=McDonald |first=William |archive-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225014254/https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kierkegaard/ |url-status=live }} * {{Cite journal |last=Menger |first=Karl |year=1960 |title=A Counterpart of Ockham's Razor in Pure and Applied Mathematics: Ontological Uses |journal=Synthese |volume=12 |issue=4 |pages=415–428 |doi=10.1007/BF00485426|s2cid=46962297 }} * {{Cite book |url=http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/Morgan/Morgan_1903/Morgan_1903_toc.html |title=An Introduction to Comparative Psychology |last=Morgan |first=C. Lloyd |publisher=W. Scott |year=1903 |isbn=978-0-89093-171-4 |edition=2nd |location=London |page=59 |chapter=Other Minds than Ours |access-date=15 April 2006 |chapter-url=http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/Morgan/Morgan_1903/Morgan_1903_03.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050412025647/http://spartan.ac.brocku.ca/~lward/Morgan/Morgan_1903/Morgan_1903_toc.html |archive-date=12 April 2005 |url-status=dead }} * {{Cite book |title=Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica |title-link=Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica |last=Newton |first=Isaac |publisher=[[Henry Pemberton]] |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-60386-435-0 |edition=3rd |location=London |author-link=Isaac Newton |orig-year=1726}} * {{Cite journal |last=Nolan |first=D. |year=1997 |title=Quantitative Parsimony |journal=[[British Journal for the Philosophy of Science]] |volume=48 |issue=3 |pages=329–343 |doi=10.1093/bjps/48.3.329|s2cid=229320568 }} * {{Cite book |title=Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas |translator-last=Pegis |translator-first=A. C. |publisher=Random House |year=1945 |isbn=978-0-87220-380-8 |location=New York |page=129}} * {{Cite book |title=The Logic of Scientific Discovery |last=Popper |first=Karl |publisher=Routledge |year=1992 |isbn=978-84-309-0711-3 |edition=2nd |location=London |pages=121–132 |chapter=7. Simplicity |orig-year=First composed 1934 (''Logik der Forschung'')}} * {{Cite journal |last=Rodríguez-Fernández |first=J. L. |year=1999 |title=Ockham's Razor |journal=Endeavour |volume=23 |issue=3 |pages=121–125 |doi=10.1016/S0160-9327(99)01199-0}} * {{Cite web |url=http://framingbusiness.net/php/2005/ockhamatheism.php |title=Ockham's Razor Suggests Atheism |last=Schmitt |first=Gavin C. |year=2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211004045/http://framingbusiness.net/php/2005/ockhamatheism.php |archive-date=11 February 2007 |access-date=15 April 2006 }} * {{Cite journal |last=Smart |first=J. J. C. |year=1959 |title=Sensations and Brain Processes |journal=[[The Philosophical Review]] |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=141–156 |doi=10.2307/2182164 |jstor=2182164}} * {{Cite book |title=Simplicity |last=Sober |first=Elliott |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=1975 |location=Oxford}} * {{Cite journal |last=Sober |first=Elliott |year=1981 |title=The Principle of Parsimony |url=http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sober-The-Principle-of-Parsimony.pdf |url-status=dead |journal=British Journal for the Philosophy of Science |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=145–156 |doi=10.1093/bjps/32.2.145 |s2cid=120916709 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111215051421/http://commonsenseatheism.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/Sober-The-Principle-of-Parsimony.pdf |archive-date=15 December 2011 |access-date=4 August 2012 }} * {{Cite book |title=Explanation and its Limits |last=Sober |first=Elliott |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=1990 |editor-last=Dudley Knowles |location=Cambridge |pages=73–94 |chapter=Let's Razor Ockham's Razor}} * {{Cite web |url=http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/TILBURG.pdf |title=What is the Problem of Simplicity? |last=Sober |first=Elliott |year=2002 |editor-last=Zellner |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061108113237/http://philosophy.wisc.edu/sober/TILBURG.pdf |archive-date=8 November 2006 |access-date=4 August 2012 |display-editors=etal }} * {{Cite book |title=Ockham's Razors - A User's Manual | last=Sober |first=Elliott |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year= 2015 |isbn=978-1-107-06849--0 |location=Cambridge, England}} * {{Cite book |title=Simplicity as Evidence for Truth |last=Swinburne |first=Richard |publisher=[[Marquette University Press]] |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-87462-164-8 |location=Milwaukee, Wisconsin}} * {{Cite journal |last=Thorburn |first=W. M. |year=1918 |title=The Myth of Occam's Razor |url=http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Occam%27s_Razor |journal=Mind |volume=27 |issue=107 |pages=345–353 |doi=10.1093/mind/XXVII.3.345 |access-date=11 July 2009 |archive-date=5 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191005192629/https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Myth_of_Occam%27s_Razor |url-status=live }} * {{Cite book |title=Adaptation and natural selection: A Critique of some Current Evolutionary Thought |last=Williams |first=George C. |publisher=[[Princeton University Press]] |year=1966 |isbn=978-0-691-02615-2 |location=Princeton, New Jersey}} {{Refend}}
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