New Work on Ecological Rationality

Presentation 

The workshop in the afternoon, entitled ‘New Work on Ecological Rationality,’ organised by the Science, Standards and Democracy at Sorbonne University in honour of Gerd Gigerenzer, former long-time director of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, director of the Harding Centre for Risk Culture at the University of Potsdam, and fellow in wirting residency at the Paris IAS in November 2025, will take place on Wednesday 19 November, from 2pm to 6pm, at the Sorbonne.

The topic will be explored from both a philosophical and psychological perspective.

Program

• 2:00pm - 3:15pm by Gerd Gigerenzer (MPI for Human Development Berlin /
  Paris IAS) - "Heuristic decision making"
• 3:30pm - 4:30pm by Igor Douven (CNRS / SND, Sorbonne University) - "Ecological rationality from the ground up"
• 4:45pm - 5:45pm by Youness Ayaita (SND, Sorbonne University) - "From ideal to ecological rationality in formal epistemology"