A Explicação Do Processo Cognitivo Como Atividade De Resolver Problemas Em Herbert Simon: Explication of the Cognitive Process as a Problem-solving Activity in Herbert Simon
Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: The object of this article is to reconstruct the explanatory model of the cognitive process according to Herbert Simon, Who interprets the cognitive process as a problem-solving human activity. To this end, three central theses are assumed: (i) an onthological thesis, related to his model of individual, according to which its cognitive processes can be represented by computational programs destined to solve specific-domain problems; (ii) a normative thesis, that supports rationality as a regulatory idea of his theory; (iii) another thesis, of an epistemological nature, according to which a greater empirical substance in the interpretation of the economic concept of rationality must be sought. The upshot of these theses is that, in the Simonian program, rationality is interpreted as a bounded and adaptive rationality. The method to reach the object of this article is to rationally reconstruct cognitive processes by means of the computational metaphor, identifying them as a problem-solving activity bounded by the three theses cited.
Source: Cognitio Revista de Filosofia
Institutions: Universidade de São Paulo, Escola de Economia de São Paulo
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Philosophy
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1556738214