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Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Ph.D.
(Co-Investigator)
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.) and is by courtesy a Professor of Political Science. Professor Jean-Pierre Dupuy was recently elected to the French Academy of Technology. As a new member of this institution, he will join a group of experts from the fields of engineering, economics, and sociology whose objective is to inform the French government, industry and community about the impact of technological developments. In his book The Mechanization of the Mind (2000), 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. His research interests include, 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.
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