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Birth
John Dupre was born July 3, 1952 in Pembury, Kent, England he is the son of Desmond John and Catherine Lane Dupré -
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Education
John Dupre got his Bachelor of Arts, Oxford, England, University, in 1981 along with his PH.D of Philosophy at Cambridge, English, University, 1981 while attending school he became a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College and continued to be shortly after. -
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Personal Life
John married his first wife Lynda Laurel-Ann Oppenheim on October 6, 1977 they then divorced in 1981. John then married his second wife Regenia Ann Gagnier, September 13, 1989 they the had 2 children name Gabriel Gagnier-Dupre and Julian Gagnier-Dupre. -
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Career
John was a member at Stanford University Department of Philosophy from 1982-1996. Since then at this current time he is a Professor of Philosophy of Science at the University of Exeter. Other places he has taught are Birkbeck College, University of London, University of Amsterdam and the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a former president of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. -
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Major Publishing's
The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science(1993)
Human Nature and the Limits of Science; Humans and Other Animals (2001)
Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (2003)
Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (2012)
Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology(co-aurthor) (2018) -
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Current Work
John is currently working towards the focus on the importance of understanding life as essentially dynamic, motivating the articulation of a fully processual ontology. He will be developing a theme with major biologists who have largely neglected like JB Haldane, Conrad Waddington and Ludwig von Bertalanffy. -
Awards and Achievements
Listed in Marquis Who's Who as as a noteworthy philosophy educator.
Research Leave award Arts and Humanities Research Board United Kingdom 1999.
Stanford Humanities Center fellow 1985-1986
Harkness fellow Commonwealth Fund of New York 1978-1980 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lklTdctDdIo]