ABSTRACT

A Naturalist View of Knowledge

CRIC Working Paper No 14

Jorge Bateira

The paper argues that Herbert Simon’s psychology is not consistent with an evolutionary approach to economics, and suggests an alternative framework that provides new opportunities for the discipline. Taking as point of departure the debate about the importance of ‘tacit knowledge’, the paper develops an understanding of knowledge that goes beyond the two current opposing stances. It uses an interdisciplinary approach to outline a Naturalist worldview and present the basic concepts of an Interactivist-Constructivist model of knowledge, thereby bridging the current gap between economics and natural sciences. It also illustrates the implications of this epistemological framework both at a theoretical (organisations) and a practical level (ICT).

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