scholarly journals AS RAÍZES DA TEORIA DOS JOGOS E COMPORTAMENTO ECONÔMICO: UMA ANÁLISE EPISTEMOLÓGICA A PARTIR DOS TRABALHOS DE JOHN VON NEUMANN, OSKAR MORGENSTERN E JOHN FORBES NASH

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (40) ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Angelica Pott de Medeiros
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O presente estudo tem como objetivo analisar sob um ponto de vista epistemológico a Teoria dos Jogos, baseando-se em von Neumann, Morgenstern e Nash, a partir de suas relevantes obras para o campo. Diante disso, foi realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica visando sintetizar os principais aspectos epistemológicos e as principais correntes de pensamento científico e filosófico. A partir disso, foi possível avançar para a próxima etapa, que consistiu em uma análise documental das obras sob a ótica da epistemologia. Os resultados indicam que a Teoria dos Jogos aborda matematicamente o processo de tomada de decisão de agentes, cujo objetivo principal é a maximização da utilidade dos jogadores, que pautam-se em decisões racionais. Dessa forma, em seus conceitos é possível identificar, sobremaneira, características do utilitarismo e do positivismo.

2004 ◽  
Vol 174 (12) ◽  
pp. 1371 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikhail I. Monastyrskii
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2000 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-361 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry McMullin

In the late 1940s John von Neumann began to work on what he intended as a comprehensive “theory of [complex] automata.” He started to develop a book length manuscript on the subject in 1952. However, he put it aside in 1953, apparently due to pressure of other work. Due to his tragically early death in 1957, he was never to return to it. The draft manuscript was eventually edited, and combined for publication with some related lecture transcripts, by Burks in 1966. It is clear from the time and effort that von Neumann invested in it that he considered this to be a very significant and substantial piece of work. However, subsequent commentators (beginning even with Burks) have found it surprisingly difficult to articulate this substance. Indeed, it has since been suggested that von Neumann's results in this area either are trivial, or, at the very least, could have been achieved by much simpler means. It is an enigma. In this paper I review the history of this debate (briefly) and then present my own attempt at resolving the issue by focusing on an analysis of von Neumann's problem situation. I claim that this reveals the true depth of von Neumann's achievement and influence on the subsequent development of this field, and further that it generates a whole family of new consequent problems, which can still serve to inform—if not actually define—the field of artificial life for many years to come.


Physics World ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (12) ◽  
pp. 59-60i
Author(s):  
Andrew Robinson

Andrew Robinson reviews The Man from the Future: the Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya.


2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandye Gloria-Palermo

The objective is to interpret John von Neumann's growth model as a decisive step of the forthcoming formalist revolution of the 1950s in economics. This model gave rise to an impressive variety of comments about its classical or neoclassical underpinnings. We go beyond this traditional criterion and interpret rather this model as the manifestation of von Neumann's involvement in the formalist programme of mathematician David Hilbert. We discuss the impact of Kurt G?del's discoveries on this programme. We show that the growth model reflects the pragmatic turn of the formalist programme after G?del and proposes the extension of modern axiomatisation to economics.


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