Ockham's Wedge by Beverly Pepper dedication
The dedication and unveiling of "Ockham's Wedge," the new sculpture by Beverly Pepper prominently at the center of the campus quadrangle at Lawrence Technological University. "Ockham's Wedge" is more than 24 feet tall and weighs 3,000 pounds.
Pepper is a leading American sculptor known for her large steel sculptures and totem figures. The sculpture's name refers to William of Ockham, a 14th century English philosopher associated with Ockham's Razor, a principle of scientific inquiry that postulates that the simplest explanation is probably the best. That sounds like the modern-day KISS principle.
The sculpture has been donated to Lawrence Tech by A. Alfred Taubman, who attended the university in the 1940s.
| Beverly Pepper Ockham's Wedge, 2009 Donated by A. Alfred Taubman Ockham's Razor, a principle of scientic inquiry developed by William of Ockham (or Occam, ca. 1280-1349), proposes that of competing hypotheses explaining the same phenomena, the simplest model, the one that "cuts away" extraneous concepts, is probably the best theory. |