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Revolutionary Changes in Understanding Man and Society

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Johann Götschl

    1. University of Graz, Austria

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Part of the book series: Theory and Decision Library A: (TDLA, volume 21)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-5
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Johann Götschl
      Pages 7-22

  3. Characteristic Features in Economic Science

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23
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    2. The Economic Science of Today and Facts: A Critical Analysis of Some Characteristic Features

      • Maurice Allais
      Pages 25-37

    3. Technical Change Without Humans: Innovation in the Neoclassical Economic Theory

      • Gerhard Rosegger
      Pages 39-51

  4. Discovery, Creativity, Cognition and Computation: Basic Structures

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 53-53
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    2. The Theory of Scientific Discovery

      • Herbert A. Simon
      Pages 55-73

    3. Understanding Creativity

      • Margaret Boden
      Pages 75-82

    4. The Role of Simulation Models in the Cognitive Sciences

      • Arturo Carsetti
      Pages 83-91

    5. The Mind and Computation

      • John R. Searle
      Pages 93-105

  5. Towards a Science of Man and Society: Philosophical and Methodological Foundations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
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    2. Self-Organization: New Foundations Towards a “General Theory of Reality”

      • Johann Götschl
      Pages 109-128

    3. Towards a Science of Man

      • Oswald Schwemmer
      Pages 129-146

  6. Rationality, Complexity and Uncertainty: New Interrelations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. The New Theory of Evolution — A Theory of Democratic Societies

      • Werner Leinfellner
      Pages 149-189

    3. Risk in Utility Theory, in Business and in the World of Fear and Hope

      • Ole Hagen
      Pages 191-210

    4. Rational Choice Theory: A Critical Look at Its Foundations

      • Mario Bunge
      Pages 211-227

    5. Complexity, the Concept of Uncertainty and Bounded Rationality of Man

      • Bertrand Munier
      Pages 229-242

    6. Security. On the Reasons for the Sinking Acceptance of Risk

      • Hermann Lübbe
      Pages 243-252

  7. Aesthetical and Ethical Patterns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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JOHANN GOTSCHL Over the last decades, social philosophers, economists. sociologists, utility and game theorists, biologists, mathematicians, moral philosophers and philosophers have created totally new concepts and methods of understanding the function and role of humans in their modern societies. The years between 1953 and 1990 brought drastic changes in the scientific foundations and dynamic of today's society. A burst of entirely new, revolutionary ideas, similar to those which heralded the beginning of the twentieth century in physics, dominates the picture. This book also discusses the ongoing refutation of old concepts in the social sciences. Some of them are: the traditional concepts ofrationality, for example, based on maximization of interests, the linearity of axiomatic methods, methodological individualism, and the concept of a static society. Today the revolutionary change from a static view of our society to an evolutionary one reverberates through all social sciences and will dominate the twenty-first century. In an uncertain and risky world where cooperation and teamwork is getting more and more important, one cannot any longer call the maximization of one's own expectations of utility or interests "rational" .

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  • University of Graz, Austria

    Johann Götschl

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