Herbert A. Simon : the bounds of reason in modern America /
Crowther-Heyck, Hunter, 1968-
Herbert A. Simon : the bounds of reason in modern America / Hunter Crowther-Heyck. - xi, 420 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-409) and index.
Introduction, (un)bounded rationality -- The garden of forking paths -- The Chicago school and the sciences of control -- Mathematics, logic, and the sciences of choice -- Research and reform -- Homo Administrativus, or choice under control -- Decisions and revisions -- Structuring his environment -- Islands of theory -- A new model of mind and machine -- The program is the theory -- The cognitive revolution -- Homo Adaptivus, the finite problem solver -- Scientist of the artificial -- The expert problem solver -- Conclusion : a model scientist -- Patrons of the revolution. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. App.
"In this study, Hunter Crowther-Heyck explores Herbert Simon's contributions to science and then influences on modern life and thought. For historians of science, social science, and technology and for scholars of twentieth-century American intellectual and cultural history, this account of Herbert Simon's life and work provides a rich and valuable perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
0801880254 9780801880254
2004012459
Simon, Herbert A. 1916-2001
Economists--United States--Biography
Social scientists--United States--Biography
System theory--History
Information theory in the social sciences--History
HB119.S47 / C76 2005
330.092
Herbert A. Simon : the bounds of reason in modern America / Hunter Crowther-Heyck. - xi, 420 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-409) and index.
Introduction, (un)bounded rationality -- The garden of forking paths -- The Chicago school and the sciences of control -- Mathematics, logic, and the sciences of choice -- Research and reform -- Homo Administrativus, or choice under control -- Decisions and revisions -- Structuring his environment -- Islands of theory -- A new model of mind and machine -- The program is the theory -- The cognitive revolution -- Homo Adaptivus, the finite problem solver -- Scientist of the artificial -- The expert problem solver -- Conclusion : a model scientist -- Patrons of the revolution. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. App.
"In this study, Hunter Crowther-Heyck explores Herbert Simon's contributions to science and then influences on modern life and thought. For historians of science, social science, and technology and for scholars of twentieth-century American intellectual and cultural history, this account of Herbert Simon's life and work provides a rich and valuable perspective."--BOOK JACKET.
0801880254 9780801880254
2004012459
Simon, Herbert A. 1916-2001
Economists--United States--Biography
Social scientists--United States--Biography
System theory--History
Information theory in the social sciences--History
HB119.S47 / C76 2005
330.092