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However, I had the dubious privilege of listening to his student Jean-Pierre Dupuy, who graced the french radio station "France-Culture" with an interview a few months ago.I thought he spoke total gobbledygook, mixing together the thery of complexity and everything else, including violence, technology and global warming, if my memory is correct.I even wrote a message to the host of the emission, and he kindly answered that unfortunately, he did not have the necessary scientific background to recognize this kind of hot air balloons.My main argument against Dupuy's utterances was that there is no such thing as a theory of complexity.There are only disparate attempts to try to understand complexity.Dupuy's interview reminded me of Bricmont and Sokal's pamphlet against the uncontrolled use of scientific metaphors among social scientists and philosophers, in the USA, France and a few other countries.Now, Dupuy is professor in Stanford, and one should not judge Girard by the silliness of one of his students.
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However, I had the dubious privilege of listening to his student Jean-Pierre Dupuy, who graced the french radio station "France-Culture" with an interview a few months ago.I thought he spoke total gobbledygook, mixing together the thery of complexity and everything else, including violence, technology and global warming, if my memory is correct.I even wrote a message to the host of the emission, and he kindly answered that unfortunately, he did not have the necessary scientific background to recognize this kind of hot air balloons.My main argument against Dupuy's utterances was that there is no such thing as a theory of complexity.There are only disparate attempts to try to understand complexity.
Dupuy's interview reminded me of Bricmont and Sokal's pamphlet against the uncontrolled use of scientific metaphors among social scientists and philosophers, in the USA, France and a few other countries.Now, Dupuy is professor in Stanford, and one should not judge Girard by the silliness of one of his students.