Sober as a Judge: Elliott Sober: Ockham’s Razors: A user’s manual. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 322pp, $29.99 , $99.99

Metascience 25 (3):387-392 (2016)
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In Ockham's Razors: A User's Guide, Elliott Sober argues that parsimony considerations are epistemically relevant on the grounds that certain methods of model selection, such as the Akaike Information Criterion, exhibit good asymptotic behaviour and take the number of adjustable parameters in a model into account. I raise some worries about this form of argument.

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Likelihood and convergence.Elliott Sober - 1988 - Philosophy of Science 55 (2):228-237.
The speed-optimality of Reichenbach's straight rule of induction.Cory F. Juhl - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (3):857-863.

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