Danny Kahneman remembered by Gerd Gigerenzer

 Gerd Gigerenzer writes about Danny Kahneman and his work,  through the lens of Gigerenzer's own long and distinguished career criticizing and reinterpreting the biases and heuristics framework introduced by Kahneman and Tversky.

The  Legacy  of  Daniel  Kahneman:  A  Personal View  by GERD GIGERENZER    Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics,Volume 18, Issue 1,Summer 2025, pp. 28–61https://doi.org/10.23941/ejpe.v18i1.1075

"Let me end with what may be Kahneman’s most important legacy: his willingness to engage in what he called “adversarial collaboration”. One can hardly overestimate the emotional strain it caused him. His openness to debate began with the three joint talks we had in the early 1990s and continued through the adversarial collaborations he initiated with several of his critics.

"Learning to separate the personal from the intellectual—to debate an issue without assuming malicious intentions on the other side—is one of the  most  virtuous  and  difficult  achievements  in  science.  The  history  of science is full of stories of those who failed to do so. Renaissance mathematicians once dueled over solutions to cubic equations, and Newton famously broke Leibnitz’s heart during their dispute over who invented calculus. That rivals eventually learned to speak to each other with respect, and even to cooperate, is a relatively recent development in the sciences (Daston 2023). "

##########

Side note: when I looked into the sentence "Renaissance mathematicians once dueled over solutions to cubic equations" I found that it didn't refer to guns or swords but rather to mathematical duels, which were exchanges of problems to see who could solve them, before open publication of methods became a scientific norm.