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In 2012, he began serving as a professor at the
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with whom he started a multi-year collaboration. Bronner and
Berthelot co-headed an AISLF research committee, which gave way in 2008 to a research committee on ‘Logic, methodology, and knowledge theories’ headed by Bronner.
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He developed the notion of ‘cognitive market’, which he defined as a market ‘where cognitive products are traded such as assumptions, beliefs, knowledge, which can compete against one another, or exist in situations of
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asked him to establish their ‘Society and
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he exposed the reasons he and his co-author E. Géhin call ‘precautionism’, i.e. the unconditional (and often ideologically driven) application of the
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he analyzes the theories underpinning governmental and administrative action and argues that basing entire policies on ideas such as
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are able to rapidly spread and form the basis to layered arguments such as conspiracy theories.
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that focuses on mental processes leading ordinary individuals toward radicalism and
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prize, and in January 2014, the Procope des Lumières prize.
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