Timeline: John A. Dupré July 3,1952-Present

Jul 3, 1952

Born

Period: 1980 to 1982

Junior Research Fellow

St. John's College

1981

PhD in Philosophy

University of Cambridge

Period: 1982 to 1996

Department of Philosophy Member

Stanford University

Mar 19, 1995

The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science

Dupré critiques essentialism, reductionism, and determinism in this book and remedies these wholly inconsistent views with a pluralistic account of science. Dupre, J. (1995). The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science. Harvard University Press.

Period: 1996 to 2022

Professor of Philosophy of Science

University of Exeter He's also taught at:
-Birkbeck college
-University of London
-The University of Amsterdam (visiting chair)
-The University of Cambridge (visiting chair) He is also currently the Vice President and President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association, and will be the president from 2021-2022

Mar 24, 2012

Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology

. Dupre shows the importance of microbiology for a proper understanding of the living world. The volume includes sections on the author’s general views on science, biology, the significance of genomics, the nature of the organism, the current status of evolutionary theory; and a section exploring some implications of contemporary biology for humans.