Christophe Heintz
Associate Professor
Philosophy
Central European University
Hungary
Biography
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.
Research Interest
History & Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Publications
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Heintz C. Presuming placeholders are relevant enables conceptual change. Commentary on Carey's précis of The Origin of Concept. Behavioral and Brain Science . 2011;34(3):131-2.
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Molnár A, Heintz C. Beliefs about people’s prosociality Eliciting predictions in dictator games.; 2014.
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Heintz C, Celse J, Giardini F, Max S. Facing expectations: Those that we prefer to fulfil and those that we disregard. Judgment and Decision Making. 2015;10:442-55.
