Opinion | The Nobel Prize-Winning Professor Who Liked to Collaborate With His Adversaries

The path on which a theory is set eventually becomes obvious to everyone—except perhaps the theorist. And this is how adversarial collaborations can advance science without adversaries changing their mind.

They have to preregister their plans on a public site, and, in articles they publish later, they are obligated to focus on the results that they... See more

Andy Coravos: When people ask what you do, they really seem to be asking who you are, putting the attention on people’s credentials within institutions (the nouns) rather than on their actions and contributions (how they live, work, and cultivate knowledge in their fields). Expertise is equated with the former, when it should be more about the latt... See more

En 2009, Kahneman et Klein ont, ce qui n’est pas commun, coécrit un article dans lequel ils ont confronté leurs points de vue, pas pour le plaisir de la confrontation, mais pour trouver un terrain d’entente. Et ils l’ont trouvé. Ils sont tombés d’accord sur un point : l’expérience permet aux spécialistes de s’améliorer, mais seulement dans certains

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