C+T MILAN: Call for papers
The third C+T conference will be held at the Bruno Leoni Institute, Milan, Italy. The call for papers has now been put out. complexitycosmos & taxisemergent orderLiberalismspontaneous orders
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Bounded Rationality in the Digital Age
The fifteenth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Peter E. Earl One of the great tragedies in economics in the decades since Simon received the 1978 Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences is that the uptake of his ideas within the discipline…
Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints, and Social Complexity
New (double) issue of Cosmos+Taxis Bounded Rationalitycomplexitycosmos & taxisFrancesco Di Ioriomethodological individualismphilosophy of social sciencesituated cognitionspontaneous orders
Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism II: varieties and evolution
Here’s an extract from the sixth and the final article from this special Human-Human Stigmergy issue. It is the second part to Francis Heylighen’s contribution. ***** In a preceding paper (Heylighen, 2015), stigmergy was defined as a mechanism for the coordination of actions, in which the trace left by an action on some medium stimulates the performance…
From Bounded Rationality to Expertise
The ninth in a series of excerpts from Minds, Models and Milieux: Commemorating the Centennial of the Birth of Herbert Simon. Fernand Gobet Introduction Historically, a pervasive assumption in the social sciences, in particular economics, is that humans are perfect rational agents. Having full access to information and enjoying unlimited computational resources, they maximise utility when…
Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints, and Social Complexity
In press: bumper themed issue guest edited by the very excellent Francesco Di Iorio 1. DI IORIO, Francesco: “Introduction: Methodological Individualism, Structural Constraints, and Social Complexity” 2. NADEAU: Robert: “Cultural Evolution, Group Selection, and Methodological Individualism” 3. ANTISERI, Dario: “Social research between the Use and Abuse of Reason” 4. PETITOT, Jean: “Complex Methodological Individualism” 5.…
Imitation and Novelty in Product Development
Here’s an extract from the third article by Ted Lewis and Richard Bergin from this special Human-Human Stigmergy issue. A human stigmergy framework for product development Many investigators over the past century have attempted to quantify human innovation as a property of social organizations such as corporations as well as individual entrepreneurs. Andergassen et al. argue that innovation appears…
Stigmergic coordination in FLOSS development teams: Integrating explicit and implicit mechanisms
The second article by Francesco Bolici, James Howison and Kevin Crowston from this special Human-Human Stigmergy issue. Their article is open access. complexitycoordination mechanismsdistributed cognitiondistributed knowledgedistributed teamsEmergenceFLOSS teamshuman stigmergySpontaneous orderstigmergic coordinationStigmergy
Soul and skin in the game
In a world overpopulated with nth rate punditry (i.e. bad faith public intellectuals) I am of the view that one of the very few who rises above the crowd is Nassim Nicholas Taleb. He is truly independent-minded, not in any ideological or financial pocket, has theoretic/practical credibility and is the most cultivated of men. He cuts…
Stigmergy as a Universal Coordination Mechanism I: Definition and Components
The first in a series of abstracts from this special Human-Human Stigmergy issue. First up is Francis Heylighen. The concept of stigmergy was proposed by the French entomologist Pierre-Paul Grassé (Grassé, 1959) to describe a mechanism of coordination used by insects. The principle is that work performed by an agent leaves a trace in the environment…
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