J. Peter Burgess

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J. Peter Burgess is Professor of Philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris where he studies the relationship between culture, technology, politics and values.  Burgess grew up in the U.S. Midwest and earned degrees from the Universities of Colorado, Iowa, and Chicago, and Columbia University, then continued graduate studies in Germany and France before settling in Norway to raise a family. He moved to Paris in 2016 to take his current post.