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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Mit Pr
Publication date
April 30, 1981
Pages
192
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
2
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780262191937
ISBN-10
0262191938
Availability§
Out of Print
Original list price
$22.50
Other format details
university press
§As reported by publisher
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Now highly expanded in length and in the sweep of its intellectual designâthe range of its consideration of social and economic systems has been extended and there is new material on human psychologyâthis book has been highly regarded and widely referenced since its publication in 1969.
In that year a review in Science stated that "Herbert Simon is one of the leaders in the present development of a science of complex information processing. His contributions have been seminal in several different fields, yet always unified in their attempt to develop a precise and adequate theory of complex systems, whether social, political, or economic organizations or thinking, feeling, creating brains and computer-programmed models. The Sciences of the Artificial is a thoughtful synthesis of Simon's conception of complexityâhow it arises, how it can be studied by a scientist, and how it can be coped with, adapted to, and understood by intelligent entities such as human beings and 'artificial intelligence' programs.... It is authoritative and at the same time provocativeâa rare combination."
"Artificial" is used in a very specific sense in this book: to denote systems that have a given form and behavior only because they adapt (or are adapted), in reference to goals or purposes, to their environment. Thus both man-made artifacts and man himself, in terms of behavior, are artificial.
This edition contains three entirely new chaptersâ"Economic Rationality: Adaptive Artifice," "Remembering and Learning: Memory as External Environment," and "Social Planning: Designing the Evolving Artifact"âwhich have been interspersed among the original four: "Understanding the Natural and the Artificial Worlds," "The Psychology of Thinking: Embedding Artifice in Nature," "The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial," and "The Architecture of Complexity."
In that year a review in Science stated that "Herbert Simon is one of the leaders in the present development of a science of complex information processing. His contributions have been seminal in several different fields, yet always unified in their attempt to develop a precise and adequate theory of complex systems, whether social, political, or economic organizations or thinking, feeling, creating brains and computer-programmed models. The Sciences of the Artificial is a thoughtful synthesis of Simon's conception of complexityâhow it arises, how it can be studied by a scientist, and how it can be coped with, adapted to, and understood by intelligent entities such as human beings and 'artificial intelligence' programs.... It is authoritative and at the same time provocativeâa rare combination."
"Artificial" is used in a very specific sense in this book: to denote systems that have a given form and behavior only because they adapt (or are adapted), in reference to goals or purposes, to their environment. Thus both man-made artifacts and man himself, in terms of behavior, are artificial.
This edition contains three entirely new chaptersâ"Economic Rationality: Adaptive Artifice," "Remembering and Learning: Memory as External Environment," and "Social Planning: Designing the Evolving Artifact"âwhich have been interspersed among the original four: "Understanding the Natural and the Artificial Worlds," "The Psychology of Thinking: Embedding Artifice in Nature," "The Science of Design: Creating the Artificial," and "The Architecture of Complexity."
Editions
Hardcover
3 sub edition from Mit Pr (October 1, 1996)
9780262193740 | details & prices | 231 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 0.50 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $70.00
The price comparison is for this edition
2 edition from Mit Pr (April 30, 1981)
9780262191937 | details & prices | 192 pages | List price $22.50
About: Now highly expanded in length and in the sweep of its intellectual designâthe range of its consideration of social and economic systems has been extended and there is new material on human psychologyâthis book has been highly regarded and widely referenced since its publication in 1969.
About: Now highly expanded in length and in the sweep of its intellectual designâthe range of its consideration of social and economic systems has been extended and there is new material on human psychologyâthis book has been highly regarded and widely referenced since its publication in 1969.
Paperback
3 edition from Mit Pr (October 1, 1996)
9780262691918 | details & prices | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $40.00
With Joe Lockard (other contributor), Mattie Griffith |
from Mit Pr (June 1, 1981)
9780262690737 | details & prices | 5.50 × 8.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $13.50
This edition also contains Autobiography of a Female Slave
This edition also contains Autobiography of a Female Slave
from Mit Pr (February 28, 1970)
9780262690232 | details & prices | List price $3.95
About: The Sciences of the Artificial reveals the design of an intellectual structure aimed at accommodating those empirical phenomena that are "artificial" rather than "natural.
About: The Sciences of the Artificial reveals the design of an intellectual structure aimed at accommodating those empirical phenomena that are "artificial" rather than "natural.
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