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Social Decision Methodology for Technological Projects
Inbunden, 1989
1643 kr
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This book grew out of the conviction that the preparation and management of large-scale technological projects can be substantially improved. We have witnessed the often unhappy course of societal and political decision making concerning projects such as hazardous chemical installations, novel …
Understanding Economic Behaviour
Av Klaus Günter Grunert, Folke Ölander
Inbunden, 1989
1692 kr
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may be related to another basic assumption in economic psychology: that the human capacity to process information from the environment is limited, and that the kind of optimal use of that information postulated in many economic theories is therefore not possible. The research methods used are …
Lifetime of a Durable Good
An Economic Psychological Approach
Av G. Antonides
Inbunden, 1989
1692 kr
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As a psychologist by education, my interest is in how people solve problems. At the Economic Institute of Leyden Universi ty, I learned that economists study human behavior too, although their studies are limited to economic affairs. At the Institute of Scientific Research on Consumer Affairs …
Worlds Apart
Collective Action in Simulated Agrarian and Industrial Societies
Av R.L. Dukes
Inbunden, 1990
1098 kr
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Uncertainty and Quality in Science for Policy
Av S.O. Funtowicz, J.R. Ravetz
Inbunden, 1990
1643 kr
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Erwin Schrodinger's World View
The Dynamics of Knowledge and Reality
Inbunden, 1992
879 kr
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Erwin Schroedinger has been described as one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man: not only did his work revolutionize physics, it also radically changed the foundations of our modern world-view, modern biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of …
Science, Politics and Morality
Scientific Uncertainty and Decision Making
Inbunden, 1992
1098 kr
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Current environmental problems and technological risks are a challenge for a new institutional arrangement of the value spheres of Science, Politics and Morality. Distinguished authors from different European countries and America provide a cross-disciplinary perspective on the problems of …
Morality and Rational Choice
Av J. Baron
Inbunden, 1993
1098 kr
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Public controversies - such as those about the distribution of goods between rich and poor, trade and population policies, allocation of medical resources, and the tradeoff between environment al protection and economic efficiency - often hinge on fundamental views about how we ought to make …
Consequentialism Reconsidered
Av E. Carlson
Inbunden, 1995
1098 kr
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In Consequentialism Reconsidered, Carlson strives to find a plausible formulation of the structural part of consequentialism. Key notions are analyzed, such as outcomes, alternatives and performability. Carlson argues that consequentialism should be understood as a maximizing rather than a …
Revolutionary Changes in Understanding Man and Society
Scopes and Limits
Av Johann Gotschl, Johann Gotschl
Inbunden, 1995
989 kr
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After the unification of physical theories in a grand unified theory, the theories of evolution began to unify not only all social sciences but also the natural with the social sciences. This text provides an analysis of the new trends which lead into the 21st century, together with a critique of …
Division of Labor, Variability, Coordination, and the Theory of Firms and Markets
Av A. Camacho
Inbunden, 1995
1130 kr
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This text documents an approach to explaining the existence of firms and markets, focusing on variability and co-ordination. It stands in contrast to the emphasis on transaction costs, and on monitoring and incentive structures, which are prominent in most of the modern literature in this field. …
Modelling and Simulation in the Social Sciences from the Philosophy of Science Point of View
Av R. Hegselmann, Ulrich Mueller m. fl.
Inbunden, 1996
1643 kr
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Model building in the social sciences can increasingly rely on well elaborated formal theories. At the same time inexpensive large computational capacities are now available. Both make computer-based model building and simulation possible in social science, whose central aim is in particular an …
Economic Rationality and Practical Reason
Inbunden, 1997
1098 kr
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This is an account of the central characteristics and problems of the orthodox notion of consequentialist economic rationality, showing how the formal core of classical decision theory can be defended against objections and incorporated into a coherentist notion of practical reason. The "orthodox" …
Dynamics of Technology
A Methodological Framework for Techno-Economic Analyses
Av G. Barbiroli
Inbunden, 1997
1692 kr
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This volume intends to provide a methodological framework, capable of critically analyzing the multiple aspects related to technological dynamics, and to arrive - at times ex post, at times ex ante - at assessments regarding the economic results that can be achieved at all levels, with the …
Alternative Action Theory
Simultaneously a Critique of Georg Henrik von Wright’s Practical Philosophy
Inbunden, 1998
1643 kr
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Action is conceived of as an intentional behavior of an individual or of an institutional subject; it is determined by information processing, namely by a process in which pieces of descriptive and practical information are involved. Action is explained by a formal and finalistic theory which is …
Functional Models of Cognition
Self-Organizing Dynamics and Semantic Structures in Cognitive Systems
Av A. Carsetti
Inbunden, 1999
1597 kr
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Our ontology as well as our grammar are, as Quine affirms, ineliminable parts of our conceptual contribution to our theory of the world. It seems impossible to think of enti ties, individuals and events without specifying and constructing, in advance, a specific language that must be used in order …
Rationality, Rules, and Structure
Av Julian Nida-Rümelin, W. Spohn
Inbunden, 2000
1098 kr
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Human agency is constrained and structured by many kinds of rules: rules that are constitutive for communication, morality, persons, and society, and juridical rules. So the question is: what roles are played by social rules and the structural traits of human agency in rational decision making? …
Dynamics and Evolution of Social Systems
New Foundations of a Mathematical Sociology
Inbunden, 2000
1643 kr
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This text discusses the mathematical analysis of social systems, understood in the following way: social systems consist of social actors who interact according to specific rules of interactions; the dynamics of social systems is then the consequences of these interactions, viz., the …
Algebra of Conscience
Inbunden, 2001
2406 kr
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Conscience is an essential human attribute. Nevertheless, in the construction of formal models of the subject it is customarily left outside the framework of theoretical analysis. The Algebra of Conscience, whose first edition appeared in 1982, was the first specialized work modeling the phenomenon …
Acting under Uncertainty
Multidisciplinary Conceptions
Inbunden, 1990
2253 kr
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Uncertainty could be associated with wisdom, enterprise, and discovery. In ordinary speech, however, it has mostly negative connotations. There is "fear of the unknown" and "ignorance is bliss;" there are maxims to the effect that "what you don't know doesn't hurt you" (or: "bother you") in several …
Evolution and Progress in Democracies
Towards New Foundations of a Knowledge Society
Inbunden, 2001
2733 kr
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In a ground-breaking series of articles, one of them written by a Nobel Laureate, this volume demonstrates the evolutionary dynamic and the transformation of today's democratic societies into scientific-democratic societies. It highlights the progress of modeling individual and societal evaluation …
Cooperative Agents
Applications in the Social Sciences
Av N.J. Saam, B. Schmidt
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Agent-based modelling on a computer appears to have a special role to play in the development of social science. It offers a means of discovering general and applicable social theory, and grounding it in precise assumptions and derivations, whilst addressing those elements of individual cognition …
Instrumental Rationality and Moral Philosophy
An Essay on the Virtues of Cooperation
Av B. Verbeek
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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Many academic authors incur debts in the production of their work, many of which are intellectual. I am no exception. One of my intellectual debts is to three remarkable books, which formed the starting point for my thinking about norms. The first of these books is well known among philosophers: …
Essay Concerning Sociocultural Evolution
Theoretical Principles and Mathematical Models
Inbunden, 2002
1098 kr
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This volume deals with the question of regularities in the course of sociocultural evolution. The evolutionary process of societies is defined as the generation of social roles and their relations; a role is understood as a pair of social rules and role specific knowledge. Accordingly evolution is …
Generating Images of Stratification
A Formal Theory
Av Thomas J. Fararo, Kenji Kosaka
Inbunden, 2003
1098 kr
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Generating Images of Stratification is a self-contained presentation of a theoretical research program that deals with a significant explanatory problem relating to social inequality and that constructs generative theoretical models in doing so. In more detail: -Self-contained presentation - In …
Analyzing Rational Crime — Models and Methods
Inbunden, 2003
1067 kr
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Olof Dahlbäck's book breaks new ground for the analysis of crime from a rationality perspective by presenting models and methods that go far beyond those with which researchers have hitherto been equipped. The book examines single crimes, individual criminality, and societal crime, and it discusses …
Evolution and Constitution
The Evolutionary Selfconstruction of Law
Av E.F. Oeser
Inbunden, 2003
1098 kr
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Evolution and Constitution for the first time brings together case law and law based on norms. It offers the reader a survey and a new explanation of evolutionary emergence of social contracts and constitutions in the European history, and -after all - should help to build a bridge between 'two …
Seeing, Thinking and Knowing
Meaning and Self-Organisation in Visual Cognition and Thought
Av A. Carsetti
Inbunden, 2004
1597 kr
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The world perceived at the visual level is constituted not by objects or static forms, but by processes appearing imbued with meaning. As G. Kanizsa stated, at the visual level the line per se does not exist: only the line which enters, goes behind, divides, etc., a line evolving according to a …
Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture
A Non-Adaptationist, Systems Theoretical Approach
Av Nathalie Gontier, Jean Paul van Bendegem m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
2188 kr
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For the first time in history, scholars working on language and culture from within an evolutionary epistemological framework, and thereby emphasizing complementary or deviating theories of the Modern Synthesis, were brought together. Of course there have been excellent conferences on Evolutionary …
On Communication. An Interdisciplinary and Mathematical Approach
Av Jürgen Klüver, Christina Klüver
Inbunden, 2007
1082 kr
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This book originated in the last four years when we were lecturing both in communication and computer science at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. Therefore, it was rather obvious for us to integrate these two sci- tific disciplines and to analyze the problem of the general logic of …
