Herbert Simon: A software psychologist who isn't

1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Kearsley
Keyword(s):  
Herbert Simon

Herbert Simon et la rationalité

1994 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 133-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Quinet
Keyword(s):  
Herbert Simon

From Selz to Gigerenzer: A thought-psychological research history, which needs a Popperian, fallibilist theory of rationality to effectively develop

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Wettersten
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Karl Popper ◽  
Thought Processes ◽  
Herbert Simon ◽  
Research History

Two sharply separated traditions in the philosophy of science and in thought psychology began with Otto Selz’s psychology. The first tradition began with Karl Popper; it has been developed by many others. The developers of the second tradition have included Julius Bahle, Adriaan de Groot, Herbert Simon, and Gerd Gigerenzer. The first tradition has ignored empirical studies of thought processes. The second tradition is widely based on Simon’s inductivist philosophy. The first tradition can be improved by integrating empirical studies of rationality into its research. The second tradition can be improved by replacing its inductivist assumptions with a fallibilist framework.

Herbert Simon and the concept of dispersed entrepreneurship

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-228 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.L Minkes ◽  
Gordon R Foxall
Keyword(s):  
Herbert Simon

scholarly journals Las meta decisiones y la teoría de la Racionalidad instrumental mínima

2018 ◽  
pp. 037
Author(s):  
Patricia Bonatti
Keyword(s):  
Herbert Simon

El proceso decisorio es el proceso que más estudios atesora y que atrae además a más profesionales de distintas disciplinas. Economistas, administradores, médicos, psicólogos, ingenieros, neurólogos y hasta cardiólogos, todos aportan a mejorar este proceso, tan omnipresente en nuestras vidas. Nos preocupa en este proceso analizar la calificación de racional o irracional según distintas corrientes de pensamiento, en el marco de la teoría de la decisión. Abordaremos un poco de historia y caracterización de la problemática de la racionalidad que ha estado vigente a lo largo de la historia del hombre, comenzando por la racionalidad fuerte: Mario Bunge (filósofo argentino), analizando los aportes de Herbert Simon y Daniel Kahneman (Premios Nobel), hasta llegar a la Teoría de la Racionalidad Instrumental Mínima (Elster, Pavesi.) Distinguiremos también conceptos morales y éticos, mal hermanados a la racionalidad.   Plantearemos como reflexiones finales los preceptos de la teoría de la decisión y algunas críticas a la Teoría Mínima de la Racionalidad Instrumental Mínima, a partir de lo investigado y con el aporte variado de los autores seleccionados, brindando especial importancia a los aspectos débiles observados en dicha teoría.

Herbert Simon

2017 ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
Kumaraswamy Vela Velupillai
Keyword(s):  
Herbert Simon

scholarly journals Empiricism in Herbert Simon: Administrative Behavior within the evolution of the Models of Bounded and Procedural Rationality

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 719-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALEJANDRO HORTAL
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Factors ◽  
Common Element ◽  
Classical Approach ◽  
Herbert Simon ◽  
Procedural Rationality ◽  
Administrative Behavior ◽  
Economic Agents ◽  
The Common ◽  
Empirical Methodology

ABSTRACT This paper contextualizes Simon’s book, Administrative Behavior, within the evolution of his ideas arguing, contrary to what some have posited, that the common element that unites this book with the rest of Simon’s work is not the criticism of the classical approach, but an epistemological frame, based on an empirical methodology. This empiricism is the element that remained constant during his career and led him to introduce psychological factors when explaining the behavior of economic agents under his models of bounded and procedural rationality.

Decision Support Systems and Representation Levels in the Decision Spine

2010 ◽  
pp. 225-231
Author(s):  
Patrick Humphreys
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Decision Problem ◽  
Rule Base ◽  
Herbert Simon ◽  
Organizational Decision Making ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Structured Problems ◽  
Three Stages ◽  
Novel Complex ◽  
Problem Solving Process

Problem solving has been defined as the complex interplay of cognitive, affective, and behavioural processes with the aim to adapt to external or internal demands or challenges (Heppner & Krauskopf, 1987). In the realm of organizational decision-making, Herbert Simon (1977) describes the problem-solving process as moving through three stages: intelligence, design, and choice. In this context, design focuses on “inventing, developing and analysing possible courses of action,” where the design artefact being constructed for this purpose constitutes the “representation of the problem.” While a wide range of representation means and calculi have been proposed for decision problem solving purposes, practical implementations generally involve applying one or more of these means to develop the structure of the problem within one or more frames. Typically, these are future-scenario frames, multiattributed preference frames, and rule base-frames (Chatjoulis & Humphreys, 2007). Simon (1977) characterized decision problems according to the degree of problem-structure that was pre-established (or taken for granted as “received wisdom,” or “the truth about the situation that calls for a decision”) at the time participants embark on the decision problem solving process. He placed such problems on a continuum ranging from routine (programmed, structured) problems with wellspecified solutions to novel, complex (unprogrammed, unstructured) with ambiguous solutions.

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