Jean Pierre DUPUY

Professeur à l'Ecole Polytechnique
CREA, France
E-mail: jpdupuy@poly.polytechnique.fr
CREA-Homepage:
http://www.crea.polytechnique.fr/CREA2000.html

Curriculum vitae

Professor of Social and Political Philosophy, École Polytechnique, Paris. Director of research at the C.N.R.S. (Philosophy). 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.
Full Professor (1/3rd time), Departments of French and, by courtesy, Political Science, Stanford University. C. S. L. I. (Center for the Study of Language and Information) Researcher, Stanford University.

Selected Publications

English 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

French books:

• Pour un catastrophisme éclairé, Paris, Seuil, 2002.

• Avions-nous oublié le mal? Penser la politique après le 11 septembre, Paris, Bayard, 2002.

• Libéralisme et justice sociale: Le sacrifice et l'envie, Paris: Hachette Littératures, 1997.

• La panique, Paris: Laboratoires Delagrange/Les Empécheurs de Penser en Rond, 1991.

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