The sciences of the artificial
by
 
Simon, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1916-

Title
: 
The sciences of the artificial

Author
: 
Simon, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1916-

ISBN
: 
9780262193740
 
9780262691918

Personal Author
: 
Simon, Herbert A. (Herbert Alexander), 1916-

Edition
: 
3rd ed.

Publication Information
: 
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1996.

Physical Description
: 
xiv, 231 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents
: 
1. Understanding the Natural and Artificial Worlds --2. Economic Rationality: Adaptive Artifice -- 3. The Psychology of Thinking: Embedding Artifice in Nature --4. Remembering and Learning: Memory as Environment for Thought -- 5. The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial -- 6. Social Planning: Designing the Evolving Artifact -- 7. Alternative Views of Complexity -- 8. The Architecture of Complexity: Hierarchic Systems.

Subject Term
: 
Science -- Philosophy.


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