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Learning, Rationality and Identity Building - From Simon To Varela

dc.contributor.authorCayla, David
dc.date.accessioned2010-11-08T18:57:01Z
dc.date.available2010-11-08T18:57:01Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.urihttps://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/5005
dc.language.isoenen
dc.subjecteconomic conceptionsen
dc.subjectlearningen
dc.subjectrationalityen
dc.subject.ddc330.1en
dc.subject.classificationjelA13en
dc.titleLearning, Rationality and Identity Building - From Simon To Varelaen
dc.typeCommunication / Conférence
dc.description.abstractenThis paper focuses on the link between the economic conceptions of rationality and learning. Traditionally, most economists believe that learning is just a way for agents to become fully rational. But being fully rational cannot describe a process, for there is only one way to be rational in the economic sense of the term. Therefore, what economists have in mind is not the process of learning, but the result of learning: ‘a fully rational agent’. Heterodox rationality conceptions such as the Simonian model of bounded rationality seem more compatible with the idea of learning. Bounded rationality implies that agents may act differently to the same stimulus; it is therefore compatible with the idea of diversity, one of the foundations of the evolutionary logic. But following Simon, learning should not be considered as a creative process that allows a lot of diverse answers. If diversity exists in the agents’ behaviors, the way they learn appears to be unique. As a consequence, learning should decrease the strength of the selection forces, both processes being contradictory (Dosi et al. 2003). Our paper aims to overcome this contradiction by showing how intentionality and identity, and more broadly Fransisco Varela’s ‘enaction’ theory, can help to invent a concept of ‘rational learning’ that is compatible with the evolutionary logic.en
dc.identifier.citationpages24en
dc.relation.ispartoftitleSelected Proceedings of the IAREP/SABE 2008 Conference at LUISS in Rome
dc.relation.ispartofpublnameLuiss University Press
dc.relation.ispartofpublcityRome
dc.relation.ispartofdate2008
dc.description.sponsorshipprivateouien
dc.subject.ddclabelThéorie économiqueen
dc.relation.ispartofisbn9788861050273
dc.relation.conftitleIAREP/SABE World Meeting
dc.relation.confdate2008-09
dc.relation.confcityRome
dc.relation.confcountryItalie


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