Christophe Heintz

Assistant Professor

Department of Philosophy

Department of Cognitive Science

Building:

Nador u. 15

Room:

205

Phone number:

extension 2484

Qualifications:

Ph.D Cognitive Science, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris), 2007

M.Phil in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, 1999

Master in Mathematics, University of Paris - Diderot, 1998

Academic/Professional experience, and Achievements:

Christophe Heintz is working on cultural evolution and cognition in the domains of the history of science and behavioural economics.
He studied mathematics and philosophy at the universities of Paris (Sorbonne and Diderot) and Cambridge. He worked for his Ph.D. at the Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Before coming to CEU, he was a research fellow at the KLI for Evolution and Cognition Research in Vienna.

Academic/research topics:

Cultural evolution and cognition

scientific cognition

cognitive economic anthropology

Academic/Research Areas:

Cognitive Science

Economics

Philosophy

Sociology and Social Anthropology

External links:

personal web site

Courses taught by Christophe Heintz


The Tragedy of the Commons: Political and Moral Issues	2011/2012
How can cognitive science inform policy-making? Political Philosophy II	2011/2012
Social Cognition	2011/2012
Strategic Cognition and Social Preferences	2011/2012
Philosophy of Social Sciences: What are social facts?	2010/2011
Political Philosophy 2: Explanation in the Social Sciences	2010/2011
Philosophy and History of Science	2010/2011
Political Philosophy II: Explanations in Social Sciences	2010/2011
Cognition, culture and society	2009/2010
Philosophy of Science	2009/2010

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Book

Experimental economics and the social embedding of economic behavior and cognition, Edited by C. Heintz and Nicholas Bardsley. Vol. 9 (2). Thematic issue 9 (2). Mind and Society, 2010. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkGoogle Scholar
Studies in Cognitive Anthropology of Science, Edited by C. Heintz. Vol. 4 (3-4). Thematic issue 4 (3-4). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2004. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkGoogle Scholar

Book Chapter

Heintz, C.. "Ethnographic cognition and 'Writing Culture'." In Beyond Writing Culture, edited by Karsten Kumoll and Olaf Zenker. Oxford, UK: Berghahn, 2010. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkAbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C.. "Cognitive history and cultural epidemiology." In Past Minds: Studies in Cognitive Historiography, edited by Luther H. Martin and Jesper Sorensen. London: Equinox Press, 2010. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkAbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C., and Nicolas Claidiere. "Darwinismes contemporains en sciences humaines." In Les mondes darwiniens: l'évolution de l'évolution, edited by Guillaume Lecointre, Philippe Huneman, Edouard Machery, Marc Silberstein and Fran¸cois Athane. Editions Syllepse, 2009. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar AbstractGoogle Scholar

Journal Article

Sperber, D., F. Clément, C. Heintz, O. Mascaro, H. Mercier, G. Origgi, and D. Wilson. "Epistemic vigilance." Mind and Language 25 (2011): 359-393. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Full Text/Attachment AbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C.. "Presuming placeholders are relevant enables conceptual change. Commentary on Carey's précis of The Origin of Concept." Behavioral and Brain Science 34 (2011). EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Google Scholar
Heintz, C., and Dario Taraborelli. "The cognitive Bases of Epistemic Evaluations." Review of Philosophy and Psychology 1: 4. (2010): 477-482 . EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Google Scholar
Heintz, C., and Nicholas Bardsley. "The implication of social cognition for experimental economics." Mind and Society 9 (2010): 113-118. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar AbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C.. "Institutions as mechanisms of cultural evolution : Prospects of the epidemiological approach." Biological Theory 2 (2007): 244-249. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkAbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C.. "Web search engines and distributed assessment systems." Pragmatics and Cognition 14 (2006): 387-409. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkAbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C.. "The ecological rationality of strategic cognition." Behavioral and Brain Sciences 28 (2005): 825-826. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkAbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C.. "Psychologism and the cognitive foundations of mathematics." Philosophia Scientiae 9 (2005): 41-61. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Google Scholar
Heintz, C.. "Introduction : Why there should be a cognitive anthropology of science." Journal of Cognition and Culture 4 (2004): 391-408. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar AbstractGoogle Scholar
Heintz, C.. "On Sousa’s epidemiological approach." Journal of Cognition and Culture 3 (2003): 322-328. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Google Scholar

Miscellaneous

Heintz, C., Dario Taraborelli(Eds), and Nausicaa Pouscoulous(Eds). Folk Epistemology. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. Thematic issue. Edited volume.., 2010. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Google Scholar
Heintz, C.. Experimental economics and the social embedding of economic behavior and cognition, Edited by C. Heintz and Nicholas Bardsley. 9 (2): Thematic issue ed. Rosselli Foundation, 2010. EndNote XML BibTex Google Scholar Publisher linkAbstractGoogle Scholar

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