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DUPRE: BIRTH
Not too much is published in reference to John Dupre's childhood. The only information available was his actual birthday which hid itself very well. Also noted was his British citizenship. I deduce that he was born in Britain:)
Reference: http://socialsciences.exeter.ac.uk/sociology/staff/dupre/ -
DUPRE: EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cambridge in 1981, and was a Junior Research Fellow at St John’s College, Oxford from 1980-1982. He was a member of the Stanford University Department of Philosophy from 1982 to 1996. Currently, he is at the University of Exeter, a Professor of Philosophy of Science. -
DUPRE: AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
John Dupre was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his work on Darwinism, and became President-Elect of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science. He is also an elected member of the governing board of the Philosophy of Science Association (USA) and of the council of the International Society for the History Philosophy and Social Studies of Biology.
Cited: http://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/john-dupre -
DUPRE: QUOTE ON EVOLUTION
"we have buffered an outdated view of evolution with a thicket of surrounding dogma and presumption that stands in the way of advancing the theory in line with the stunning insights that are being gained in other areas of biology…evolution is a mosaic of more or less related processes…" (Processes of Life, p. 160) -
DUPRE: APPROACH TO SCIENCE
He follows a process of Pluralistic approach to science, in contrast to a reductionist approach by many. Like Popper, he sees the world structure, not of reductionism but that of Pluralistic approach. He believes it is not possible for the world to be structured in such a way as reductionism thought. Reductionism sees psychological facts reducible to neurological facts, which is in turn are reducible to biological facts.
https://everipedia.org/wiki/John_Dupr%25C3%25A9/
