Satisfaction and Optimization in Cognmitive Science and Evolutionary Biology

认知科学和进化生物学中的满意度和优化

• 批准号: 8921837
• 负责人: Robert Richardson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Cincinnati Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-09-01 至 1992-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8921837&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Satisfaction; Optimization; Cognmitive; Science; Evolutionary

Appeals to optimality have a prominent role in philosophy, cognitive science, and evolutionary biology. Optimizing procedures have been challenged as excessively demanding, and Herbert Simon has proposed an alternative analysis in terms of what he terms "satisficing." It has become common to view satisficing as optimizing under additional constraints. Dr. Richardson is undertaking research that challenges this reduction of satisficing to optimizing, and examines the implications of this result of evolutionary ecology and cognitive science. There are three components to the project. The first phase incorporates a general characterization of satisficing models and the conditions under which they differ procedurally from optimization models. Second, optimization models purport to provide an independent measure of fitness, but have been criticized on the grounds that the measure they provide is not both operational and general. In light of the general characterization of satisficing models, the problem in this second phase of the project is whether satisficing models are likely to resolve methodological problems confronting optimality models in evolutionary biology. The final phase is a preliminary examination of the merits of non- optimizing models in cognitive science, and, in particular, their implications for philosophy of science.

诉诸最优性在哲学中有着突出的作用， 认知科学和进化生物学。 优化 程序被质疑过于苛刻， 赫伯特·西蒙提出了另一种分析方法， 他所谓的“满足”“人们普遍认为， 在附加约束条件下的优化。 博士 理查森正在进行挑战这一点的研究 减少满意优化，并检查 进化生态学的这一结果的影响， 认知科学 该项目有三个组成部分。 第一阶段包括以下一般特征： 满意模型和它们不同的条件 从程序上优化模型。 第二，优化 模型旨在提供一种独立的适应性度量， 但一直受到批评，理由是他们的措施， “提供”既不是操作性的，也不是一般性的。 考虑到 满意模型的一般特征，问题 在这个项目的第二阶段， 模型可能解决方法问题 在进化生物学中对抗最优模型。 的 最后阶段是初步审查非 优化认知科学中的模型，特别是， 对科学哲学的影响。