
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Professor of French and Italian and, by courtesy, of Political Science
Bio
Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy is a Professor of Social and Political Philosophy at the École Polytechnique, Paris. He is the Director of research at the C.N.R.S. (Philosophy) and the Director of C.R.E.A. (Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée), the philosophical research group of the École Polytechnique, which he founded in 1982. At Stanford University, he is a researcher at the Study of Language and Information (C.S.L.I.) Professor Dupuy is by courtesy a Professor of Political Science.
In his book The Mechanization of the Mind, Jean-Pierre Dupuy explains how the founders of cybernetics laid the foundations not only for cognitive science, but also artificial intelligence, and foreshadowed the development of chaos theory, complexity theory, and other scientific and philosophical breakthroughs.
Boards, Advisory Committees, Professional Organizations
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Director of Research, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, (C.N.R.S.) (Philosophy)
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Director, Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée, (C.R.E.A.) (1982 - Present)
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Researcher, Study of Language and Information (C.S.L.I.), Stanford University
Program Affiliations
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Science, Technology and Society
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Symbolic Systems Program
2019-20 Courses
- Research Workshop on the Problem of Evil
FRENCH 365 (Spr) -
Independent Studies (8)
- Graduate Independent Study
MTL 398 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Independent Studies in Ethics in Society
ETHICSOC 199 (Aut, Win) - Individual Work
FRENCH 199 (Aut, Spr) - Individual Work
FRENCH 399 (Aut, Sum) - Individual Work
ITALIAN 199 (Aut, Spr, Sum) - Individual Work
ITALIAN 399 (Aut, Spr, Sum) - Qualifying Paper
MTL 390 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum) - Reading for Orals
MTL 399 (Aut, Win, Spr, Sum)
- Graduate Independent Study
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Prior Year Courses
2017-18 Courses
- Science, technology and society and the humanities in the face of the looming disaster
FRENCH 228, ITALIAN 228, POLISCI 233F (Win)
2016-17 Courses
- Science, technology and society and the humanities in the face of the looming disaster
FRENCH 228, ITALIAN 228, POLISCI 233F (Win)
- Science, technology and society and the humanities in the face of the looming disaster
All Publications
- La marque du sacré Paris: Carnets nord. 2009
- On the origins of cognitive science: the mechanization of the mind Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 2009
- Dans l'œil du cyclone: colloque de Cerisy Paris: Carnets nord. 2008
- Petite métaphysique des tsunamis Paris: Seuil. 2005
- La panique Paris: Empêcheurs de penser en rond. 2003
- Les limites de la rationalité. colloque de Cerisy, 5-12 juin 1993, Centre culturel international de Cerisy-la-Salle Paris: La Découverte. 2003
- Pour un catastrophisme éclairé: quand l'impossible est certain Paris: Seuil. 2002
- Avions-nous oublié le mal?: penser la politique après le 11 septembre Paris: Bayard. 2002
- The mechanization of the mind: on the origins of cognitive science Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2000
- Les savants croient-ils en leurs théories?: une lecture philosophique de l'histoire des sciences cognitives Paris: Institut national de la recherche agronomique. 2000
- Ethique et philosophie de l'action Paris: Ellipses. 1999
- Self-deception and paradoxes of rationality Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications. 1998
- Aux origines des sciences cognitives Paris: La Découverte. 1994
- Understanding origins: contemporary views on the origin of life, mind, and society Dordrecht, Netherlands;Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1992
- Le sacrifice et l'envie: le libéralisme aux prises avec la justice sociale Paris: Calmann-Lévy. 1992
- Sens et place des connaissances dans la société Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique. 1986
- Ordres et désordres: enquête sur un nouveau paradigme Paris: Seuil. 1982
- Le signe et l'envie: variations sur des figures de René Girard Paris. 1978