Jean-Pierre Dupuy | |
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Born | February 20, 1941 |
Nationality | French |
Education | Ecole polytechnique, Ecole des Mines |
Occupation(s) | French engineer and philosopher |
Jean-Pierre Dupuy (born February 20, 1941) is a French engineer and philosopher.
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 Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI) of Stanford University, California. [1] He also taught social and political philosophy and the ethics of science and technology until 2006 at the École Polytechnique.
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