Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler
theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a
history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in
current physics, biology, and psychology. The razor also gets used
outside of science - in everyday life and in philosophy. This book
evaluates the principle and discusses its many applications.
Fascinating examples from different domains provide a rich basis
for contemplating the principle's promises and perils. It is
obvious that simpler theories are beautiful and easy to understand;
the hard problem is to figure out why the simplicity of a theory
should be relevant to saying what the world is like. In this book,
the ABCs of probability theory are succinctly developed and put to
work to describe two 'parsimony paradigms' within which this
problem can be solved.
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