Models of Discovery and Other Topics in the Methods of Science.

SIMON, Herbert A.:

ISBN 10: 902770970X / ISBN 13: 9789027709707

Edité par Dordrecht, etc.: D. Reidel, 1977 [1978]., 1978

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Paperback reissue (published simultaneously in cloth and paper in 1977). xix, 456 pp. Original wrappers. Very Good+. Pallas Paperback 10. Originally published as Boston Studies in Philosophy of Science Vol. LIV, Synthese Library Vol. 114. There is no date after 1977 in this edition, but on the rear wrapper is an announcement of Simon's winning the 1978 Nobel Prize. Herbert A. Simon: Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1978, 'for his pioneering research into the decision-making process within economic organizations.'.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Models of Discovery and Other Topics in the Methods of Science.
• Éditeur: Dordrecht, etc.: D. Reidel, 1977 [1978].
• Date de parution: 1978
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 902770970X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9789027709707
• Reliure: Soft cover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket

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Synopsis

We respect Herbert A. Simon as an established leader of empirical and logical analysis in the human sciences while we happily think of him as also the loner; of course he works with many colleagues but none can match him. He has been writing fruitfully and steadily for four decades in many fields, among them psychology, logic, decision theory, economics, computer science, management, production engineering, information and control theory, operations research, confirmation theory, and we must have omitted several. With all of them, he is at once the technical scientist and the philosophical critic and analyst. When writing of decisions and actions, he is at the interface of philosophy of science, decision theory, philosophy of the specific social sciences, and inventory theory (itself, for him, at the interface of economic theory, production engineering and information theory). When writing on causality, he is at the interface of methodology, metaphysics, logic and philosophy of physics, systems theory, and so on. Not that the interdisciplinary is his orthodoxy; we are delighted that he has chosen to include in this book both his early and little-appreciated treatment of straightforward philosophy of physics - the axioms of Newtonian mechanics, and also his fine papers on pure confirmation theory.