Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Professor of French
Professor by courtesy of Political Science
Contact:
111 Pigott Hall
650 723 4713
jpdupuy@stanford.edu
OVERVIEW:
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.
EDUCATION:
1964-1966: Ecole des Mines de Paris
1960-1962: Ecole Polytechnique
Admitted to le Corps des Mines
July 1960: Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Normale Supérieure (Ulm-sciences)
News & Events
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Aug 30, 2011
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Courses
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FRENGEN256ESpr2011-12
A confrontation between ways of accounting for society in an individualistic framework: the social contract; political economy; individualistic sociology; society as crowd; mass psychology; and sociopolitical institutions. Creating a typology of the ways in which a given anthropology constrains conceptions of the social and political order. Writers include Rousseau, Hume, Smith, Constant, Tocqueville, Marx, Durkheim, Weber, and Freud.
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FRENGEN277Spr2010-11
René Girard's oeuvre has been hailed as one of the most powerful and influential theories in the human sciences. This reading seminar will provide a critical introduction to Girard's theory emphasizing its epistemological and philosophical underpinnings and its potential for interdisciplinarity. Its relevance for anthropology economics political and social philosophy religious studies and literary theory will be fully explored.
