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Birth
John Dupré was born on July 3, 1952, in Pembury, Kent, England to Desmond John and Catherine Lane Dupré. -
Education
In 1981 John Dupré earned his bachelor's degree from Oxford University in England and was a Junior Research Fellow at St. John's College in Oxford. He then earned his Ph.D. of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge, England. -
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Career
From 1982 to 1996, Dupré was a member of the Philosophy Department at Stanford University in California. His interests in the philosophy of biology include genomics, microbiology, systematics, and evolutionary theory. -
Publications
"The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science" was one of his earliest book publications. In this book, Dupré provides a "systematic critique" of essentialism (The Third Way, n.d.). This view states that nature contains a unique set of kinds of science that aims to discover reductionism, the idea that in principle everything should be explainable using the laws of fundamental physics (The Third Way, n.d.). -
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Career Continued
From 1996 to now, he is a professor of the Philosophy of Science at Exeter University. -
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Interests
From 2002-2012, he was the director of the ESRC Center for Genomics in Society. His research focused on philosophical issues revolving around the interpretation and implications of genomics and genetics. -
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Interests
From 2013-2018, Dupré worked on a ERC-funded project, "A Process for Contemporary Biology". The purpose of this particular project was to "articulate a process-centered ontology that, I argue is better suited to understand the biological and biomedical sciences" (Dupré, n.d.). -
References
John A. Dupré. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://prabook.com/web/john_a.dupre/144559 John Dupré. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/john-dupre John Dupré. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/john-dupre
