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Jean-Pierre Dupuy

b. 1941

French engineer, epistemologist and philosopher

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Born 1941. Jean-Pierre Dupuy is a French philosopher, engineer, university teacher, non-fiction writer, political scientist and france.

Jean-Pierre Dupuy (born February 20, 1941) is a French engineer and philosopher.

Biography Dupuy attended the Ecole polytechnique, where he graduated in 1965 and attended the Ecole des Mines. He is an associate at the Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) of Stanford University, California and is also attached to the Science and Technology Studies program. He also taught social and political philosophy and the ethics of science and technology until 2006 at the École Polytechnique.

He founded the center of cognitive sciences and epistemology of the Ecole polytechnique (CREA) in 1982 with Jean-Marie Domenach on the basis of preliminary reflections by Jean Ullmo. This center became a mixed research unit in 1987. From the outset, its vocation was two-fold and involved both modeling in human sciences (models of self-organization of complex systems) and the philosophy of science (in particular, the epistemology of cognitive sciences).

Awards 2011 : prix Roger-Caillois member of Académie des technologies and French Catholic Academy. Dupuy was inducted as an Academician into the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences.

Work With Hubert Lévy-Lambert, Les Choix économiques dans l'entreprise et dans l'administration, Dunod, 1973. With Serge Karsenty, L'Invasion pharmaceutique, Seuil, « Points » 1977. « À la recherche du temps gagné », in Ivan Illich, Énergie et Équité, 1974. Valeur sociale et encombrement du temps, éditions du CNRS, 1975. With Jean Robert, La Trahison de l'opulence, Puf, 1976 . With Paul Dumouchel, L'Enfer des choses, Seuil, 1979 . Introduction à la critique de l'écologie politique, Civilizaçao Brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, 1980. Ordres et Désordres, enquête sur un nouveau paradigme, Seuil, 1982. . With Michel Deguy (dir.), René Girard et le Problème du mal, Grasset, 1982 . La Panique, Les Empêcheurs de Penser en Rond, 1991 . Le Sacrifice et l'Envie. Le libéralisme aux prises avec la justice sociale, Paris, Calmann-Lévy, 1992. – Réédition sous le titre Libéralisme et justice sociale, Hachette Pluriel . Introduction aux sciences sociales. Logique des phénomènes collectifs, Ellipses, 1992 . Aux origines des sciences cognitives, La Découverte, 1994 (2005). Éthique et philosophie de l'action, Ellipses, 1999. Les savants croient-ils en leurs théories ? Une lecture philosophique de l'histoire des sciences cognitives, INRA Éditions, 2000. Avions-nous oublié le mal ? Penser la politique après le 11 septembre, Bayard, 2002 . Pour un catastrophisme éclairé. Quand l'impossible est certain, Seuil, 2004 . Petite métaphysique des tsunamis, Seuil, 2005 . Retour de Tchernobyl. Journal d'un homme en colère, Seuil, 2006 . La Marque du sacré : essai sur une dénégation, Carnets nord, 2009 . Dans l'œil du cyclone – colloque de Cerisy, Carnets nord, 2009 . L'Avenir de l'économie : sortir de l'économystification, Flammarion, 2012 . La jalousie : Une géométrie du désir, Seuil, 2016 .

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École polytechnique, Mines ParisTech, Ecole des Mines, Ecole polytechnique
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Stanford University, Stanford University French and Italian Department

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French engineer, epistemologist and philosopher

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Jean-Pierre Dupuy was born on 20 February 1941 in Paris.

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Jean-Pierre Dupuy is a philosopher, engineer, university teacher, non-fiction writer, political scientist and france.

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