Faculty

Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Professor of French

108 Pigott Hall
650 723 4713
jpdupuy@stanford.edu
Office hours: By Appointment

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.

Interests

Cultural theory; social and political philosophy, the cognitive sciences, the epistemology of the social sciences, and the relationship of current critical theory to logical and scientific thinking.

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)

Current courses (Spring 2007)

FRENGEN 256E Political Anthropology from Rousseau to Freud

Recent courses

FRENGEN 128 Science, Ethics, and Society: Debates and Controversies in Europe and America
FRENGEN 253E French Social Thought from Durkheim to Bourdieu
FRENLIT 257 Self-Deception in Literature and Philosophy: Putting Philosophy at the Risk of Narrative

Latest books

The Mechanization of the Mind - On the Origins of Cognitive Science, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000.
Self-Deception and Paradoxes of Rationality, C.S.L.I. Publications, Stanford University, 1998.

In French

Pour un catastrophisme éclairé, Paris, Seuil, 2002.
Avions-nous oublié le mal? Penser la politique après le 11 septembre, Paris, Bayard, 2002.
La Panique, Paris, Les Empêcheurs de penser en rond, 2003.

Current Research Program

The paradoxes of rationality: or the classical philosophical problem of the antinomies of Reason at the age of rational choice theory, analytic philosophy, and cognitive science.

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