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What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations." The ability to apply reason to the choice of actions is supposed to be one of the defining characteristics of our species. In the first two chapters, the author explores the nature and limits of human reason, comparing and evaluating the major theoretical frameworks that have been erected to explain reasoning processes. He also discusses the interaction of thinking and emotion in the choice of our actions. In the third and final chapter, the author applies the theory of bounded rationality to social institutions and human behavior, and points out the problems created by limited attention span human inability to deal with more than one difficult problem at a time. He concludes that we must recognize the limitations on our capabilities for rational choice and pursue goals that, in their tentativeness and flexibility, are compatible with those limits.… (meer)
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This is a short book containing three lecture-based essays; the first on rational choice theory, the second on social evolution and the third on knowledge in politics. Although the author's learned and logical style makes each essay enjoyable, I still did not find them particularly interesting. The format is simply too short for any powerful arguments. I would recommend the author's longer works instead of this collection.
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Una domanda attraversava tutta la raccolta di saggi raccolta nel 1979 da Gargani e intitolata appunto Crisi della ragione. Sono passati due secoli dal diciottesimo, dall'età della Ragione: come si deve concepire oggi la forza di una ragione che è stata desublimata, sottratta al suo stadio epico?
Introduzione all'edizione italiana, PAOLO LEGRENZI
Un certo atteggiamento di ottimismo, o quanto meno supposto tale, sostiene che se noi usiamo con intensità sufficiente le nostre facoltà intellettive, siamo allora sufficientemente razionali e possiamo quindi risolvere tutti i nostri problemi.
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La mia opinione personale è che Simon qui si mostra qualcosa di più o, comunque, di diverso da un disincantato "uomo del sistema". Piuttosto potremmo dire che il suo messaggio è "tragico" perché in sostanza ci riporta indietro di sessan'anni, alle proposizioni finali del Tractatus logico-philosophicus di Wittgenstein, quando si affermava: "[6.41] Il senso del mondo dev'essere fuori di esso. Nel mondo tutto è come è, e tutto avviene come avviene; non v'è in esso alcun valore - né, se vi fosse, avrebbe un valore".
Introduzione all'edizione italiana, PAOLO LEGRENZI
Dipenderà da tutti noi se sapremo renderci conto che il nostro destino è legato al destino del mondo intero e che non deve esistere un interesse personale, anche temperato, anche limitato al solo istinto della sopravvivenza, che ci impedisca di essere in armonia con tutto l'ambiente, naturale e sociale, in cui viviamo.
What can reason (or more broadly, thinking) do for us and what can't it do? This is the question examined by Herbert A. Simon, who received the 1978 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences "for his pioneering work on decision-making processes in economic organizations." The ability to apply reason to the choice of actions is supposed to be one of the defining characteristics of our species. In the first two chapters, the author explores the nature and limits of human reason, comparing and evaluating the major theoretical frameworks that have been erected to explain reasoning processes. He also discusses the interaction of thinking and emotion in the choice of our actions. In the third and final chapter, the author applies the theory of bounded rationality to social institutions and human behavior, and points out the problems created by limited attention span human inability to deal with more than one difficult problem at a time. He concludes that we must recognize the limitations on our capabilities for rational choice and pursue goals that, in their tentativeness and flexibility, are compatible with those limits.
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