Publication: Racionalidad acotada: heurísticos y acción individual
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2005
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Universidad del Bío Bío
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El modelo clásico de racionalidad en las ciencias sociales ha sido durante muchas décadas sinónimo de capacidades de razonamiento ilimitadas. La relevancia de este modelo está respaldada por la importancia y la trascendencia de los resultados obtenidos. Pese a ello, se ha demostrado como una herramienta limitada para la explicación de determinados tipos de comportamientos. El elevado nivel de exigencia de alguno de sus requisitos convierten a este agente en un sujeto racional cuyas capacidades y cuyo comportamiento son escasamente realistas. En el presente trabajo se presenta las principales características de un modelo teórico que también surge al amparo de la teoría de las ciencias sociales, pero cuyo objetivo es el de explicar los comportamientos racionales desde una óptica naturalista. En el debate abierto en torno a la racionalidad acotada (bounded rationality) y su capacidad de explicar la racionalidad en entornos naturalizados no debería quedar exenta de un análisis de sus fundamentos.
The classical model of rationality has long been, in the field of social sciences, synonymous with the unlimited human capacity to reason. The relevance of this model is backed by the importance and bearing of the results obtained. In spite of this, the model has been proven to be a somewhat limited tool for the explanation of certain types of behaviour. The strictness of some of its requirements makes this decision maker a rational agent whose abilities and patterns of behaviour are hardly realistic. This paper outlines the main characteristics of a theory model which also arises from the social sciences theory, but whose aim is to explain rational patterns of social behaviour from a realistic point of view. In the debate opened about bounded rationality and its ability to explain rationality in realistic settings, an analysis of its foundations is called for.
The classical model of rationality has long been, in the field of social sciences, synonymous with the unlimited human capacity to reason. The relevance of this model is backed by the importance and bearing of the results obtained. In spite of this, the model has been proven to be a somewhat limited tool for the explanation of certain types of behaviour. The strictness of some of its requirements makes this decision maker a rational agent whose abilities and patterns of behaviour are hardly realistic. This paper outlines the main characteristics of a theory model which also arises from the social sciences theory, but whose aim is to explain rational patterns of social behaviour from a realistic point of view. In the debate opened about bounded rationality and its ability to explain rationality in realistic settings, an analysis of its foundations is called for.