William of Ockham is the medieval philosopher who gave us what is perhaps the world’s only metaphysical knife. Raised by Franciscan friars and educated at Oxford in the late 13th century, he focused ...

Every college philosophy major knows about Ockham’s razor—the dictum that if you’ve got two hypotheses you should go with the one that makes the fewest number of assumptions. A common short-cut to ...

A new article argues that by relying too much on parsimony in modeling, scientists make mistakes and miss opportunities. Medieval friar William of Ockham posited a famous idea: always pick the ...

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Ockham’s Razor will be performing somewhat more competently on the same piece of equipment at the Linbury Studio of the Royal Opera House at this year’s London International Mime Festival. The LIMF, ...

The Fulham troupe's name isn't what it seems - it celebrates a medieval metaphor for scraping away complicated options and going for the simple thing. Too simple in The Mill, which seems to have ...