Bounded Rationality and Philosophy of Science

The standard economic theory and specially the rational choice model are blocks shared as a theoretical background by a lot of works in philosophy of science and philosophy of technology. The logical approach to science studies is another reason of that common style in the received view. One of the issues that I mean that needs changes is the model of human being on wich those theories are built up. There are a huge number of critics to the basis of the rational standard model, and some ot them are very well knowed. I think that Amartya Kumar Sen has developed an approach to economic studies that in its critics to rational economic man is relevant to general studies of science. Some sociologist and psycologist worked out also very pregnant remarks that is changing that standard model. Some of the main critics to the model are related with the existence and unicity problem. Other are linked with empirical and experimental inadecuacies of the same model. In this area usually are referred the Kahneman and Tversky point of view. Inside Psycology and Economics studies this is a common debate and there are a lot of important results. Even there are several trends that are building theoretical point of views against the received or mainstream theory. Although inside philosophyof science is not so usual this kind of critics there are already a few of scholars that are working hard on this direction. Only as an example, I referred to Adam Morton (Fools ape angels: epistemology for finite agents (For Gardenfors e-schrift) or Dov M. Gabbay and John Woods (Normative Models of Rational Agency, February 2002). As Marcelo Dascal has said: "If extant theories have been unable to harmonize a