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Herbert A. Simon : the bounds of reason in modern America / Hunter Crowther-Heyck.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005Description: xi, 420 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0801880254
  • 9780801880254
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.092 22
LOC classification:
  • HB119.S47 C76 2005
Contents:
Introduction, (un)bounded rationality -- 1. The garden of forking paths -- 2. The Chicago school and the sciences of control -- 3. Mathematics, logic, and the sciences of choice -- 4. Research and reform -- 5. Homo Administrativus, or choice under control -- 6. Decisions and revisions -- 7. Structuring his environment -- 8. Islands of theory -- 9. A new model of mind and machine -- 10. The program is the theory -- 11. The cognitive revolution -- 12. Homo Adaptivus, the finite problem solver -- 13. Scientist of the artificial -- 14. The expert problem solver -- Conclusion : a model scientist -- App. Patrons of the revolution.
Review: "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.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 330.092 SIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A414538B
Book North Campus North Campus Main Collection 330.092 SIM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A405243B

Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-409) and index.

Introduction, (un)bounded rationality -- 1. The garden of forking paths -- 2. The Chicago school and the sciences of control -- 3. Mathematics, logic, and the sciences of choice -- 4. Research and reform -- 5. Homo Administrativus, or choice under control -- 6. Decisions and revisions -- 7. Structuring his environment -- 8. Islands of theory -- 9. A new model of mind and machine -- 10. The program is the theory -- 11. The cognitive revolution -- 12. Homo Adaptivus, the finite problem solver -- 13. Scientist of the artificial -- 14. The expert problem solver -- Conclusion : a model scientist -- App. Patrons of the revolution.

"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.

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