Jean-Pierre Dupuy (born February 20, 1941) is a French

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Biography

Dupuy attended the Ecole polytechnique, where he graduated in 1965 and attended the Ecole des Mines. He was a professor of French and a researcher at the

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. He also taught social and political philosophy and the ethics of science and technology until 2006 at the

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. He founded the center of cognitive sciences and epistemology of the Ecole polytechnique (CREA) in 1982 with

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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

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of cognitive sciences).

Awards

* 2011 : prix Roger-Caillois * member of Académie des technologies and French Catholic Academy.J.P. Dupuy, ''La marque du sacré'', Ed. Flammarion, Coll. "Champs essais", 2010, , p. 30. * Dupuy was inducted as an Academician into the

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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

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, ''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

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(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 .

References

External links

L'auto-organisation: de la physique au politique / Colloque de Cerisy ; sous la dir. de Paul Dumouchel et Jean-Pierre Dupuy (1981)
* Henri Prévot

Lecture notes. * Diffusion des savoirs de l'ENS
''Première série d'interventions sur l'Éthique''
Audio resources online under

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* Sur son engagement pro-nucléaire: Bertrand Louart
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, un catastrophiste bien mal éclairé
2011. * ''Cybernetics Is An Antihumanism: Advanced Technologies and the Rebellion Against the Human Condition''
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