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- Aquinas, T. (1945) Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, trans. A.C. Pegis, New York: Random House. (Scholar)
- Audi, R. (ed.) (1995) The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Baker, A. (2001) “Mathematics, Indispensability and Scientific Practice,” Erkenntnis, 55, 85–116. (Scholar)
- –––. (2003) “Quantitative Parsimony and Explanation,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 54, 245–259. (Scholar)
- –––. (2007) “Occam's Razor in Science: a Case Study from Biogeography,” Biology and Philosophy, 22, 193–215. (Scholar)
- Barnes, E. (2000) “Ockham's Razor and the Anti-Superfluity Principle”, Erkenntnis, 53, 353–74. (Scholar)
- Bennett, J. (ed.) (1965) Experiments in Plant Hybridisation (by Gregor Mendel), London: Oliver & Boyd. (Scholar)
- Bilaniuk, O.-M. & Sudarshan, E. (1969) “Particles Beyond the Light Barrier,” Physics Today, 22, 43–52. (Scholar)
- Bunge, M. (1963) The Myth of Simplicity: Problems in Scientific Philosophy, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall. (Scholar)
- Burgess, J. (1998) “Occam's Razor and Scientific Method,” in Schirn (ed.) (1998), 195–214. (Scholar)
- Derkse, W. (1992) On Simplicity and Elegance, Delft: Eburon. (Scholar)
- Dirac, P. (1930) “The Proton,” Nature, London, 126, 606. (Scholar)
- Fetzer, J. (ed.) (1984) Principles of Philosophical Reasoning, Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld. (Scholar)
- Fichman (1977) “Zoography and the Problem of Land Bridges,” Journal for the History of Biology, 10(1), 45–63. (Scholar)
- Ford, K. (1963) “Magnetic Monopoles,” Scientific American, 209, 122–31. (Scholar)
- Forster, M. (1995) “The Curve-Fitting Problem,” in Audi (ed.) (1995). (Scholar)
- –––. (2001) “The New Science of Simplicity,” in Zellner et al. (eds.) (2001), 83–119. (Scholar)
- Forster, M. & Sober, E. (1994) “How to Tell when Simpler, More Unified, or Less Ad Hoc Theories will Provide More Accurate Predictions,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45, 1–35. (Scholar)
- Friedman, M. (1983) Foundations of Space-Time Theories, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
- Galileo, G. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Wolrd System, transl. Drake (1962), Berkeley. (Scholar)
- Gauch, H. (2003) Scientific Method in Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
- Goodman, N. (1955) Fact, Fiction, and Forecast, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Goodman, N. & Quine, W. (1947) “Steps Towards a Reconstructive Nominalism,” Journal of Symbolic Logic, 12, 105–122. (Scholar)
- Groarke, L. (1992) “Following in the Footsteps of Aristotle: the Chicago School, the Glue-stick and the Razor,” Journal of Speculative Philosophy, 6(3), 190–205. (Scholar)
- Holsinger, K. (1981) “Comment: the Blunting of Occam's Razor,” Canadian Journal of Zoology, 59, 144–6. (Scholar)
- Jeffreys, H. (1961) Theory of Probability, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- Kant, I. The Critique of Pure Reason, transl. Kemp Smith (1950), London. (Scholar)
- Kelly, K. (2004) “Justification and Truth-Finding Efficiency: How Ockham's Razor Works,” Minds and Machines, 14, 485–505. (Scholar)
- Kemeny, J. (1959) A Philosopher Looks at Science, New York: Van Nostrand. (Scholar)
- Kragh, H. (1981) “The Concept of the Monopole: a Historical and Analytical Case-Study,” Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 12(2), 141–72. (Scholar)
- Kuhn, T. (1977) “Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice,” in The Essential Tension, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 320–39. (Scholar)
- Lange, M. (1995) “Spearman's Principle,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 46, 503–52. (Scholar)
- Lavoisier, A. (1862) “Réflexions sur le Phlogistique,” in Oeuvres, vol. 2, 623–4, Paris: Imprimerie Impériale. (Scholar)
- Lewis, D. (1973) Counterfactuals, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. (Scholar)
- Maurer, A. (1984) “Ockham's Razor and Chatton's Anti-Razor,” Mediaeval Studies, 46, 463-75. (Scholar)
- McAllister, J. (2007) “Model Selection and the Multiplicity of Patterns of Empirical Data,” Philosophy of Science, 74, 884–894. (Scholar)
- McKeon, R. (1941) The Basic Works of Aristotle, New York: Random House. (Scholar)
- Nash, L. (1963) The Nature of the Natural Sciences, Boston: Little, Brown. (Scholar)
- Nelson, G. (1978) “From Candolle to Croizat: Comments on the History of Biogeography,” Journal of the History of Biology, 11(2), 269–305. (Scholar)
- Newton, I. (1964) The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, New York: Citadel Press. (Scholar)
- Nolan, D. (1997) “Quantitative Parsimony”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 48, 329–43. (Scholar)
- –––. (1999) “Is Fertility Virtuous in its Own Right?”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 50, 265–82. (Scholar)
- Plutynski, A. (2005) “Parsimony and the Fisher-Wright Debate,” Biology and Philosophy, 20, 697–713. (Scholar)
- Popper, K. (1959) The Logic of Scientific Discovery, London: Hutchinson. (Scholar)
- Quine, W. (1966) “On Simple Theories of a Complex World”, in The Ways of Paradox, New York: Random House. (Scholar)
- –––. (1981) Theories and Things, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
- Rescher, N. (1998) Complexity: a Philosophical Overview, New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. (Scholar)
- Sarkar, S. & Pfeifer, J. (eds.) (2006) The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Schirn, M. (ed.) (1998) The Philosophy of Mathematics Today, Oxford, New York: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
- Schlesinger, G. (1963) Method in the Physical Sciences, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
- Schulte, O. (1999) “Means-End Epistemology,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 50, 1–31. (Scholar)
- Smart, J. (1984) “Ockham's Razor,” in Principles of Philosophical Reasoning, ed. Fetzer, 118–28. (Scholar)
- Sober, E. (1981) “The Principle of Parsimony,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 32, 145–56. (Scholar)
- –––. (1988) Reconstructing the Past: Parsimony, Evolution and Inference, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (Scholar)
- –––. (1994) “Let's Razor Ockham's Razor”, in From A Biological Point of View, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 136–57. (Scholar)
- –––. (2001) “What is the Problem of Simplicity?” in Zellner et al. (eds.) (2001), 13–31. (Scholar)
- –––. (2006) “Parsimony,” in Sarkar & Pfeifer (eds.) (2006), Vol 2, pp. 531–538. (Scholar)
- Steel, D. (2009) “Testability and Ockham's Razor: How Formal and Statistical Learning Theory Converge in the New Riddle of Induction,” Journal of Philosophical Logic, 38, 471–489. (Scholar)
- Swinburne, R. (1997) Simplicity as Evidence for Truth, Milwaukee: Marquette University Press. (Scholar)
- Thornburn, W. (1918) “The Myth of Occam's Razor,” Mind, 27, 345–53. (Scholar)
- Vitányi, L. & Li, M. (2001) “Simplicity, Information, Kolmogorov Complexity and Prediction,” in Zellner et al. (eds.) (2001), 135–55. (Scholar)
- Walsh, D. (1979) “Occam's Razor: A Principle of Intellectual Elegance”, American Philosophical Quarterly, 16, 241–4. (Scholar)
- Woodward, J. (2003) Making Things Happen: A Theory of Causal Explanation, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
- Zellner, A., Keuzenkamp, H. & McAleer, M. (eds.) (2001) Simplicity, Inference and Modelling: Keeping It Sophisticatedly Simple, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
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