Jean-Pierre Dupuy

Jean-Pierre Dupuy is an engineer and a philosopher. He founded the center of cognitive sciences and epistemology of the École polytechnique (CREA) in 1982 and is a member of the French Academy of Technology.  He wrote more than twenty books, notably on cognitive sciences and on the question of disasters, notably Pour un catastrophisme éclairé : quand l'impossible est certain, Seuil, 2002. 

Philosophy World Democracy

It will not be a world democracy, since it must be the people themselves who create themselves and arrange themselves. Rather, we affirm a democratic essence of the world: peopled by all the living and by all the conversing, wholly configured by their existence and by their words.