#367 Christophe Heintz: Adaptive Cognition, Cognitive History, and Science
RECORDED ON AUGUST 11th, 2020.
Dr. Christophe Heintz is Associate Professor at the Central European University, where he leads the research group ACE (Adaptive Cognition and Economics). Dr. Heintz is working on the role of adaptive cognition in shaping economic behavior, cultural evolution, and the history of science. Scientific practices and economic choices have traditionally been described as rational. He attempts to describe them as resulting from both environmental/contextual and psychological causal factors, with a focus on evolved cognition.
In this episode, we talk about adaptive cognition and cognitive history applied to economic choices and science. During our talk, we also discuss cultural attraction theory, reasoning, and folk epistemology.
Time Links:
What is adaptive cognition?
What is cognitive history?
The role of context in the development of science
Cultural attraction theory
Distributed cognition
What is reasoning?
What is folk epistemology?
The role institutions play in cultural evolution
How we make economic choices
Science as a cultural phenomenon
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Follow Dr. Heintz’s work:
Faculty page: https://bit.ly/35pZ67d
Website: https://bit.ly/2YjUEWd
ResearchGate profile: https://bit.ly/2YojuEg
Twitter handle: @heintzc3