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Against Simple Stories.

January 4, 2016

Against Simple Stories: Adrian Currie argues that although simple explanations are tempting, often the world's complexity requires that we also value complexity in our explanations.

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In Thoughts, Adrian Currie Tags Explanation, fossa, sauropods, complexity

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