Linked bibliography for the SEP article "Simplicity" by Alan Baker

This is an automatically generated and experimental page

If everything goes well, this page should display the bibliography of the aforementioned article as it appears in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, but with links added to PhilPapers records and Google Scholar for your convenience. Some bibliographies are not going to be represented correctly or fully up to date. In general, bibliographies of recent works are going to be much better linked than bibliographies of primary literature and older works. Entries with PhilPapers records have links on their titles. A green link indicates that the item is available online at least partially.

This experiment has been authorized by the editors of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The original article and bibliography can be found here.

Aquinas, T., [BW], Basic Writings of St. Thomas Aquinas, A.C. Pegis (trans.), New York: Random House, 1945.
Aristotle, Posterior Analytics, in The Basic Works of Aristotle, R. McKeon (trans.), New York: Random House, 1941.
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)
Baron, S. & Tallant, J., 2018, “Do Not Revise Ockham’s Razor Without Necessity,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 96, 596–619. (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)
Cameron, R., 2010, “How to Have a Radically Minimal Ontology,” Philosophical Studies, 151: 249–64. (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, M., 1977, “Wallace: Zoogeography and the Problem of Land Bridges,” Journal for the History of Biology, 10(1): 45–63. (Scholar)
Fitzpatrick, S., 2013, “Kelly on Ockham’s Razor and Truth-Finding Efficiency,” Philosophy of Science, 80: 298–309. (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., 1632, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, S. Drake (trans.), Berkeley, 1962. (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)
Jansson, L. & Tallant, J., 2017, “Quantitative Parsimony: Probably for the Better,” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 68: 781–803. (Scholar)
Jeffreys, H., 1961, Theory of Probability, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
Kant, I., 1781/1787, The Critique of Pure Reason, N. Kemp Smith (trans.), New York: Humanities Press, 1950. (Scholar)
Kelly, K., 2004, “Justification and Truth-Finding Efficiency: How Ockham’s Razor Works,” Minds and Machines, 14: 485–505. (Scholar)
–––, 2007, “A New Solution to the Puzzle of Simplicity,” Philosophy of Science, 74: 561–73. (Scholar)
Kelly, K., Genin, K. & Lin, H., 2016, “Realism, Rhetoric, and Reliability,” Synthese, 193: 1191–223. (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 (Volume 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)
Mendel, Gregor, 1865, Experiments in Plant Hybridisation, J. Bennett (ed.), R.A. Fisher (trans.), London: Oliver & Boyd, 1965. (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., 1687, The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy (Principia Mathematica), New York: Citadel Press, 1964. (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.V.O., 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)
Riesch, H., 2010, “Simple or Simplistic? Scientists’ Views on Occam’s Razor,” Theoria, 67: 75–90. (Scholar)
Sarkar, S. & Pfeifer, J. (eds.), 2006, The Philosophy of Science: An Encyclopedia, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
Schaffer, J., 2010, “Monism: The Priority of the Whole,” Philosophical Review, 119: 37–76. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, “What to Not Multiply Without Necessity,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 93: 644–64. (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)
–––, 2008, “The Co-discovery of Conservation Laws and Particle Families,” Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics, 39: 288–314. (Scholar)
Sendlak, M., 2018, “On Quantitative and Qualitative Parsimony,” Metaphilosophy, 49: 153–66. (Scholar)
Sider, T., 2013, “Against Parthood,” Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, 8: 237–93. (Scholar)
Smart, J.J.C., 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 (Volume 2), pp. 531–538. (Scholar)
–––, 2015, Ockham’s Razors: A User’s Manual, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (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)

Generated Mon May 5 07:30:31 2025

Applied ethics	Epistemology	History of Western Philosophy	Meta-ethics	Metaphysics	Normative ethics
Philosophy of biology	Philosophy of language	Philosophy of mind	Philosophy of religion	Science Logic and Mathematics	More ...