John Dupre

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  • Born

    Born in Pembury, Kent, England (Prabook, 2020).

  • Education

    John Dupre received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1981 (Prabook, 2020).

  • Professor

    John Dupre was an assistant professor at Stanford university in California. Dupre was a big contributor to the philosophy department at Stanford along with other philosophers such as Nancy Cartwright, Ian Hacking, Patrick Suppes, and Peter Galison (Wishon, 2020).

  • Research fellow

    Dupre became a research fellow for the university of Exeter in England (Prabook, 2020).

  • Director

    Dupre became the director of Exeter genomics research institute, which is the centre for the study of life services (Dupre, 2020). Dupre even wrote in his bibliography that his interests were in philosophy but in genomics as well (Dupre, n/a). He also was still teaching as a professor for philosophy at the time.

  • Elected

    John Dupre was elected a fellow of the American association for the advancement of science because of his recognition for his work on Darwinism (Dupre, 2020).

  • Elected Again

    In 2020 Dupre got elected to be a fellow of the American Academy of arts and sciences (Dupre, 2020).