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Born July 3rd 1952
John Dupré was born in 1952. He is a professional philosopher of science. He is currently the director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter. -
Education
John received his Ph.D at Cambridge in 1981 after spending two years studying in the U.S. as a Harkness Fellow. He was then a Junior Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford, for two years before settling in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University, where he was a professor until 1996. -
Move back to UK
He then returned to the U.K. to take up posts as Professor of Philosophy in Birkbeck College, University of London, and as a Senior Research Fellow at Exeter. -
Reintroduction of philosophy
At Exeter Dupré headed the reintroduction of philosophy, which has been inactive at Exeter since the department was closed in the eighties. Several undergraduate philosophy degrees were launched in 2000. -
Full time Directorship
in 2000 he resigned his chair in London and was appointed at Exeter as Professor of Philosophy of Science. In 2002 he assumed the full-time directorship of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society. -
American Association for the Advancement of Science
in 2010 John Dupré was elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. -
New projects
starting May 2013 Dupré will lead a major new project at Egenis, funded by the European Research Council (ERC). “A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology” aims to rethink central issues in the philosophy of biology by elaborating an ontology for biology that takes full account of the processual nature of living systems.