Jean Lassègue, Philosopher and epistemologist, National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) research fellow and associate searcher at Advanced study institute on justice (IHEJ) (France)

10.00 – 10. 30: What is AI?

  • Born in Paris April 27, 1962
  • Tenure Research Fellowship at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) since 1994
  • Currently member of Institut Marcel Mauss – CNRS UMR 8178
  • École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)

Academic career

  • 1985: Graduation in Philosophy.
  • 1986: MA in Philosophy – University of Poitiers, France.
  • 1990: MA in Cognitive Science - University of Paris, EHESS, France.
  • 1994: PhD. in Philosophy - University of Paris, Paris 10-Nanterre, France.
  • 2010: Habilitation in Philosophy - University of Paris, Paris 4 Sorbonne, France
  • 1986-1987: Visiting grant, Maison française d’Oxford, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Sept-Dec 1999: Visiting scholar, University of Berkeley, Berkeley, USA.
  • Jan 2015: Visiting scholar, Institut Marc Bloch, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2008-2010: Deputy Director of the “Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée” [“Center for Research in Applied Epistemology”], École polytechnique,.
  • 2010-2011: Director of the “Centre de Recherche en Épistémologie Appliquée” [“Center for Research in Applied Epistemology”], École polytechnique.
  • - since 2016: Director of the “Linguistque, Sociolinguistique, Anthropologie” [“Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Anthropology”], Institut Marcel Mauss, EHESS.

Area of Research

History and philosophy of computer science. Theory of Symbolic Forms. Anthropology of writing. Philosophy of culture. Philosophy of law.

Recent publications

Books

1. Garapon, A. & Lassègue, J. (2018). Justice digitale ; révolution graphique et rupture anthropologique, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, ISBN: 978-2-13-073357-7.

2. Lassègue, J. (2016). Cassirer, Du transcendantal au sémiotique, Paris, Vrin, ISBN: 978-2-7116-2690-8.

3. Lassègue, J. (2012). Patience camarade, un monde lisible est devant toi !, Paris, Descartes & Cie, ISBN: 2844462308.

4. Lassègue, J. (2006). Turing…et l'informatique fut. Paris, Belin, ISBN: 2-84245-078-7.

- Dutch translation (2010) Turing, Bouwer van de eerste computers, Wetenschappelijke biografie, NWT, ISBN: 9789085712893.

5. Lassègue, J. (1998, repub. 2003). Turing. Paris, Belles Lettres, ISBN: 2-251-76014-8.

- Korean translation (2003), Sybille Books Literary Agency, Seoul, ISBN: 89-8038-432-7.

- Portuguese translation (2017), Editora Estação Liberdade, São Paulo, Brazil, ISBN: 978-85-7448-280-4.

Special issues

1. “Religion et cognition”, Intellectica (ISSN: 0769-4113), 2008/3 (50) : 7-174.

2. “Représentations : quelques aperçus”, Intellectica (ISSN: 0769-4113), 2002/2 (35) : 7-129.

3. “Turing aujourd’hui”, (to appear in 2018), Intellectica.

Book Chapters (selection)

(English selection)

1. Lassègue, J (2017), “The Daoud Affair – On extra-European Secularism, Literature and Migration of Ideas in a Time of Crisis”, in Engaging Vulnerability, Studia Rhetorica Upsaliensis, (Stagnell, Therkildsen, Rosengren eds), Sept. 2017 : 64 – 78.

2. Lassègue, J. (2012). “Technical Activity as a Symbolic Form; Comparing Money and Language”, in Ernst Cassirer on Form and Technology: Contemporary Readings, A. S. Hoel & I. Folkvord (eds), Palgrave Macmillan, 2012: 139-160. (ISBN-10: 0230365477).

3. Lassègue, J. (2008). “Doing Justice to the Imitation Game; a farewell to formalism” in Parsing the Turing Test; Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer, Epstein, Roberts & Beber eds. Berlin, Spinger Verlag: 151-169. (ISBN : 978-1-4020-6708-2).

(French selection)

1. Lassègue, J. (to appear in 2018), “Une perspective transcendantale sans table des catégories est-elle possible ? « Catégorie » et « thème » dans l’épistémologie d’Ernst Cassirer”, Paris, Presses de la Sorbonne.

2. Lassègue, J (2017), “Machiavel, Léonard ou Galilée de la politique ? Sur une lecture de Cassirer par Claude Lefort”, Spartacus-idh, Paris : 27-38 (ISBN : 978-2-36693-036-8).

3. Lassègue, J (2016), “Lettre à Turing” in Lettres à Turing, J.-M. Levy-Leblond ed., Thierry Marchaisse éditions, Paris : 135-141 (ISBN : 978-2-36280-097-9).

Articles

(English selection)

1. Lassègue J. (2013), “Semiotic Anthropology and Cassirer’s Legacy”, Occasional Papers of the Swedish Ernst Cassirer Society. (ISBN 978-91-975476-5-9).

2. Lassègue, J. & Longo, G. (2012), “What is Turing’s Comparison between Mechanism and Writing Worth?”, How The World Computes, Turing Centenary Conference, S. Barry Cooper, Anuj Dawar & Benedikt Löwe (eds.), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 7318 (ISBN 978-3-642-30869-7), Springer: 450-461.

3. Lassègue, J. (2008), “Shanahan on Symbolization”, Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science, 42 : 27-31, (ISSN: 1932-4502).

(French selection)

1. Lassègue J. (2016), Les mathématiques, l’objectivité et la culture, Actes des Journées d'étude théorico-clinique 2015, Ateliers Chassigny.

2. Lassègue J. (2018), “Symbole”, Dictionnaire philosophique de l’humain, Université Paris 10-Nanterre.

3. Lassègue J. (2012), “Le formalisme hilbertien est-il soluble dans la culture ?”, Influxus #1 [http://www.influxus.eu/article434.html].