A graduate of the École Polytechnique and the École des mines, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, is a professor at Stanford University. For many years he taught social and political philosophy and ethics of science and technology at the École Polytechnique, where he created the Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée (Center for research in applied epistemology) and manages the Groupe de Recherche et d’Intervention sur la Science et l’Éthique (Research and intervention group on science and ethics). He was recently elected to the Académie Française des Technologies (French academy of technologies). He has notably published Pour un catastrophisme éclairé (for an enlightened catastrophism) (Seuil, 2002).