Simplicity out of Complexity? Physics and the Aims of Science

Articles (9 in this collection)

1. Introduction: Simplicity out of complexity? Physics and the aims of science

   Authors (first, second and last of 4)

   • Florian J. Boge
   • Miguel-Ángel Carretero-Sahuquillo
   • Martin King

   • Content type: EditorialNotes
   • Open Access
   • Published: 22 March 2023

   • Article: 116

2. Functionspaces, simplicity and curve fitting

   Authors

   • Thomas Bonk

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Open Access
   • Published: 07 February 2023

   • Article: 58

   

3. Organizational complexity in big science: strategies and practices

   Authors

   • Martina Merz
   • Helene Sorgner

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Open Access
   • Published: 06 May 2022

   • Article: 211

4. Feynman diagrams

   Authors

   • Robert Harlander

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Open Access
   • Published: 01 November 2021

   • Pages: 15087 - 15111

   

5. Reflex theory, cautionary tale: misleading simplicity in early neuroscience

   Authors

   • M. Chirimuuta

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Open Access
   • Published: 23 August 2021

   • Pages: 12731 - 12751

6. The mirror of physics: on how the Price equation can unify evolutionary biology

   Authors

   • Victor J. Luque
   • Lorenzo Baravalle

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Open Access
   • Published: 05 August 2021

   • Pages: 12439 - 12462

   

7. Between mechanical clocks and emergent flocks: complexities in biology

   Authors

   • Fridolin Gross

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Open Access
   • Published: 29 July 2021

   • Pages: 12073 - 12102

   

8. The value of vague ideas in the development of the periodic system of chemical elements

   Authors

   • Thomas Vogt

   • Content type: Original Research
   • Published: 29 June 2021

   • Pages: 10587 - 10614

9. Theoretical virtues and theorizing in physics: against the instrumentalist view of simplicity

   Authors

   • Mousa Mohammadian

   • Content type: Simplicity out of Complexity? Physics and the Aims of Science
   • Published: 05 January 2021

   • Pages: 4819 - 4828