MODELS OF MY LIFE

SIMON, Herbert A.

ISBN 10: 0465046401 / ISBN 13: 9780465046409

Published by BasicBooks (Harper), not given, 1991

About this Item

Binding: green cloth backed blue boards. xxix + 415, 10 un-numbered photos on 4 pp. central block ex-pagination. All faultless. Unclipped jacket has not significant faults but mere hint of top edge rubbing, back has panel with 13 digit ISBN number although verso t.p. clearly gives this as 1st ed.and only has 10 digit one, also 3 puffs from eminent scholars, so jacket presumably not as first issued (will add protective sleeve when ordered). 16 cm x 24 cm Extremely scarce.

Seller Inventory # 012485

Bibliographic Details

• Title: MODELS OF MY LIFE
• Publisher: BasicBooks (Harper), not given
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0465046401
• ISBN 13: 9780465046409
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mathematics
  • Psychology & Human Sciences

About this title

Synopsis

The author reviews his life as a Nobel laureate in economics and his role as the father of artificial intelligence and asks himself how his life as a scientist helps explain his own behavior

Review

-- Sherry Turkle, "New York Times Book Review" " As much as any one person, Herbert A. Simon has shaped the intellectual agenda of the human and social sciences in the second half of the 20th century .... For many readers, Mr. Simon's view of human endeavor, of love and of work, will seem emblematic not of the pre-Freudian rationalism-that-was but a new, sleeker, rationalism-to-be -- a rationalism purged of utopian excess, committed to empirical studies, and wedded to the most modern technology." -- Sherry Turkle, "New York Times Book Review" & quot; As much as any one person, Herbert A. Simon has shaped the intellectual agenda of the human and social sciences in the second half of the 20th century .... For many readers, Mr. Simon's view of human endeavor, of love and of work, will seem emblematic not of the pre-Freudian rationalism-that-was but a new, sleeker, rationalism-to-be -- a rationalism purged of utopian excess, committed to empirical studies, and wedded to the most modern technology.& quot; -- Sherry Turkle, New York Times Book Review "As much as any one person, Herbert A. Simon has shaped the intellectual agenda of the human and social sciences in the second half of the 20th century .... For many readers, Mr. Simon's view of human endeavor, of love and of work, will seem emblematic not of the pre-Freudian rationalism-that-was but a new, sleeker, rationalism-to-be--a rationalism purged of utopian excess, committed to empirical studies, and wedded to the most modern technology."--Sherry Turkle, "New York Times Book Review"