Why simplicity is so highly desirable

Authors

• .Adams, John (1)
  • Journal (1)
• .Adorno, Theodor W. et al. (1)
  • Der Positivismusstreit in der deutschen Soziologie (1)
• .Agassi, Joseph (1)
  • A Philosopher’s Apprentice (1)
• .Albert, Hans (28)
  • “Die Idee der kritischen Vernunft” (14)
  • „Die Verfassung der Freiheit“ (2)
  • „Plädoyer für kritischen Rationalismus“ (1)
  • Die Wissenschaft und die Fehlbarkeit der Vernunft (1)
  • In Kontroversen verstrickt (1)
  • Kritischer Rationalismus (3)
  • Traktat über kritische Vernunft (6)
• .Albert/Popper (1)
  • Briefwechsel (1)
• .Andersson, Gunnar (3)
  • “Naive and Critical Falsificationism” (3)
• .Bacon, Francis (3)
  • New Organon (3)
• .Banerjee, Abhijit and Esther Duflo (1)
  • Poor Economics (1)
• .Benn, Tony (1)
  • HC debate, 22 Mar 2001 (1)
• .Bergson, Henri (1)
  • Two Sources of Morality & Religion (1)
• .Blackburn, Simon (1)
  • Truth (1)
• .Boghossian, Peter (1)
  • “How to… CALL BULLSHIT” (1)
• .Bronowski, Jacob (8)
  • Science and Human Values (8)
• .BVerfG (1)
  • “KPD-Verbot” (1)
• .Byrnes, Sholto (1)
  • “When it comes to facts … science is the only game in town” (1)
• .Churchill, Winston (1)
  • HC debate, 11 Nov 1947 (1)
• .Cockburn, Patrick (1)
  • “How Julian Assange's private life …” (1)
• .Colquhoun, David (1)
  • “The problem with p-values” (1)
• .Cox, Brian (4)
  • Science Britannica – ep. 2, Method and Madness (4)
• .Dahrendorf, Ralf (5)
  • Die neue Freiheit (5)
• .Darwin, Charles (4)
  • The Origin of Species (4)
• .Dawkins, Richard (1)
  • The Life Scientific (1)
• .Dawkins/Law (1)
  • In Conversation with Richard Dawkins (1)
• .Deutsch, David (45)
  • The Beginning of Infinity (26)
  • The Fabric of Reality (19)
• .Dewey, John (2)
  • Experience and Education (2)
• .Dryzek, John S. (1)
  • Deliberative Democracy and Beyond (1)
• .Eidlin, Fred (1)
  • “Matching Popperian theory to practice” (1)
• .Einstein, Albert (1)
  • “Autobiographical Notes” (1)
• .Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1)
  • Human Culture Lectures (1)
• .Enserink, Martin (1)
  • “Final Report: Stapel Affair Points to Bigger Problems…” (1)
• .Ferrone, Vincenzo (1)
  • The Enlightenment (1)
• .Feyerabend, Paul (2)
  • Against Method (2)
• .Feyerabend/Albert (2)
  • Briefwechsel (2)
• .Feynman, Richard (5)
  • The Character of Physical Law (2)
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (3)
    • “Cargo Cult Science” (1)
    • “What is Science?” (2)
• .Fisher, R.A. (7)
  • “The Arrangement of Field Experiments” (1)
  • Statistical Methods and Scientific Inference (2)
  • Statistical Methods for Research Workers (1)
  • The Design of Experiments (3)
• .Fuller, Steve (10)
  • Kuhn vs. Popper (10)
• .Gadenne, Volker (1)
  • “Is Popper’s Third World Autonomous?” (1)
• .Gladwell, Malcolm (1)
  • “The Politics of Politesse” (1)
• .Goldacre, Ben (2)
  • Bad Science (2)
• .Goodin, Robert (4)
  • Reflective Democracy (4)
• .Gould, Stephen Jay (6)
  • Bully for Brontosaurus (2)
  • Dinosaur in a Haystack (2)
  • Hen’s Teeth and Horse’s Toes (2)
• .Grayling, A.C. (6)
  • Liberty in the Age of Terror (3)
  • To Set Prometheus Free (2)
  • Towards the Light (1)
• .Harris, Sam (3)
  • The Moral Landscape (3)
• .Hitchens, Christopher (1)
  • “I Fought the Law” (1)
• .Horkheimer, Max and Theodor W. Adorno (4)
  • Dialectic of Enlightenment (4)
• .Hume, David (3)
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (3)
• .Jarvie, Ian (17)
  • The Republic of Science (17)
• .Jörke, Dirk (1)
  • Demokratie als Erfahrung (1)
• .Kant, Immanuel (1)
  • “Beantwortung der Frage: Was ist Aufklärung?” (1)
• .Kiesewetter, Hubert (2)
  • „Karl Poppers Offene Gesellschaft und die Demokratie im 21. Jahrhundert“ (2)
• .Kohl, Helmut (1)
  • “Sir Karl Popper” (1)
• .Krugman, Paul (1)
  • “The Gullible Center” (1)
• .Kuhn, Thomas (1)
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1)
• .Lakatos, Imre (1)
  • “Falsification and the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes” (1)
• .Laudan, Larry (1)
  • “The Demise of the Demarcation Problem” (1)
• .Lipton, Peter (1)
  • Inference to the Best Explanation (1)
• .Livio, Mario (1)
  • Brilliant Blunders (1)
• .Lockhart, Paul (2)
  • A Mathematician’s Lament (2)
• .Magee, Bryan (5)
  • “What use is Popper to a practical politician?” (2)
  • Popper (3)
• .Medawar, Peter (4)
  • “Is the Scientific Paper Fraudulent?” (1)
  • “Review of Teilhard de Chardin’s The Phenomenon of Man” (2)
  • Pluto’s Republic (1)
• .Meehl, Paul E. (5)
  • “The Problem Is Epistemology, Not Statistics” (2)
  • “Theoretical Risks and Tabular Asterisks: Sir Karl, Sir Ronald, and the Slow Progress of Soft Psychology” (1)
  • “Theory-testing in Psychology and Physics: A Methodological Paradox” (2)
• .Mill, John Stuart (35)
  • On Liberty and Utilitarianism (35)
    • “On Liberty” (32)
    • “Utilitarianism” (3)
• .Morgenstern/Zimmer (1)
  • Karl Popper (1)
• .Mosley, Michael and John Lynch (2)
  • The Story of Science (2)
• .Nagel, Thomas (1)
  • “The Facts Fetish” (1)
• .Newton, Roger G. (3)
  • The Truth of Science (3)
• .Notturno, Mark (20)
  • “The Open Society and Its Enemies: Authority, Community, and Bureaucracy” (1)
  • “Truth, Rationality, and the Situation” (5)
  • On Popper (2)
  • Science and the Open Society (12)
• .Paine, Thomas (1)
  • Dissertation on First Principles of Government (1)
• .Papineau, David (1)
  • For Science in the Social Sciences (1)
• .Pies, Ingo (1)
  • “Theoretische Grundlagen demokratischer Wirtschafts- und Gesellschaftspolitik” (1)
• .Pinker, Steven (1)
  • How the Mind Works (1)
• .Popper, Karl (162)
  • “Replies to my Critics” (2)
  • After The Open Society (2)
    • “The importance of critical discussion” (1)
    • “The Open Society today” (1)
  • All Life is Problem Solving (3)
  • Auf der Suche nach einer besseren Welt (8)
    • “Die Logik der Sozialwissenschaften” (6)
    • “Gegen die großen Worte” (1)
    • “Wissenschaft und Kritik” (1)
  • Conjectures and Refutations (23)
    • “Back to the Presocratics” (1)
    • “Humanism and Reason” (1)
    • “Public Opinion and Liberal Principles” (1)
    • “Science: Conjectures and Refutations” (5)
    • “Sources of Knowledge and Ignorance” (4)
    • “The Nature of Philosophical Problems and Their Roots in Science” (1)
    • “Truth, Rationality, and the Growth of Scientific Knowledge” (4)
    • “Utopia and Violence” (3)
    • “What is Dialectic?” (1)
  • Logik der Forschung (1)
  • Objective Knowledge (19)
  • Realism and the Aim of Science (4)
  • The Logic of Scientific Discovery (36)
  • The Myth of the Framework (19)
  • The Open Society and Its Enemies (37)
  • The Poverty of Historicism (2)
  • Unended Quest (6)
• .Popper, Karl and John C. Eccles (11)
  • The Self and Its Brain (11)
• .Porter, Roy (2)
  • The Enlightenment (2)
• .Russell, Bertrand (2)
  • The Problems of Philosophy (2)
• .Sagan, Carl (11)
  • “Does Truth Matter?” (1)
  • Broca’s Brain (1)
  • Cosmos (5)
  • The Demon-Haunted World (2)
  • The Varieties of Scientific Experience (2)
• .Schank, Roger (1)
  • Making Minds Less Well Educated Than Our Own (1)
• .Shearmur, Jeremy (2)
  • The political thought of Karl Popper (2)
• .Shirky, Clay (1)
  • Tweet on 2009-10-17 (1)
• .Singer, Peter (1)
  • “Discovering Karl Popper” (1)
• .Sloman/Fernbach (1)
  • “Why Partisans Can’t Explain Their Views” (1)
• .Smolin, Lee (1)
  • The Trouble with Physics (1)
• .Soros, George (1)
  • Open Society (1)
• .Stelter, Brian (1)
  • “A Grass-Roots Newscast Gives a Voice to Struggles” (1)
• .The Julian Assange Show (1)
  • Ep. 10, Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali (1)
• .Trotsky, Leon (1)
  • “What Is National Socialism?” (1)
• .Vollmer, Gerhard (1)
  • “Kritischer Rationalismus und Evolutionäre Erkenntnistheorie” (1)
• .Waschkuhn, Arno (2)
  • Kritischer Rationalismus (2)
• .Weil, Simone (3)
  • Anmerkung zur generellen Abschaffung der politischen Parteien (3)
• .Wilson, Edward O. (1)
  • Consilience (1)
• .Zimmer, Mirjam (1)
  • “Zur Hölle mit Ihren Befehlen, Sir!” (1)