Mark Lilla has a wonderful little review at The New Republic on Brad S. Gregory’s Book, The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society. After discussing the relationship of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Robyn Williams: Well I hope you're having an excellent festive season, and we shall celebrate with this ...

OXFORD CONFERENCE: From Ockham to Wyclif-April 15-19, 1985 OCKHAM IN SURREY: Seventh Centenary of Ockham's Birth-April 20, 1985 OXFORD CONFERENCE: From Ockham to Wyclif-April 15-19, 1985 OCKHAM IN ...

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 now and then the elaborate elite consensus is wrong,” writes Tim Harford in “How populism became popular” (Spectrum, Life & Arts, November 15). Goodness! I almost spilt my coffee reading this, ...

Occam’s razor is a principle often attributed to 14th–century friar William of Ockham that says that if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.

"Critical edition of the Tractatus ... based on the one previously printed text and eight manuscripts ... The printed edition ... is to be foound in the Expositio aurea of William Ockham, edited by Fr ...

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 ...