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Schooling
John Dupré has an impressive scholarly resume attending Oxford as an undergrad, earning a PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge University, and completing two years of post-graduate studies at Stanford and Princeton. -
Philosophy of Biology
Dupré was the a pioneer of sorts. He chose to have a focus on Biology rather than physics, as most philosophers choose to focus on physics. Dupré also advocates for a pluralistic model rather than reduction-ism. Reduction-ism being that things can be reduced to a lowest common factor. Dupré believes this is not possible, as with pluralism, things co-exist as one. -
The Disorder of Things
John Dupré publishes his book on where he stands as a philosopher of science, a manifesto of sorts. Within it it he critiques science as being fluid opposed to the belief that it follows a specific method. It essentially is an anti-thesis to everything that science stands for. -
Darwin's Legacy
Probably what I consider Dupré's best work. While he agrees that Darwin's theory of evolution is best for animals, it does not explain a lot of other things such as humans (language, culture, and sexuality), or how the idea of evolution does not apply to a species as a whole but rather isolated populations. -
Mr. President Elect
Currently, John Dupré is the elected Vice-President of the Philosophy of Science Association and is set to take over as President in 2021. I can not imagine this is an easy feat to achieve and takes a lifetime of work to climb this mountain.
Below is a video of John Dupré delivering a lecture in a series about Darwinism. It is an hour long.
https://youtu.be/I6r3Pg9WdjI
