John Dupré

  • John Dupre

    He is a British philosopher of science. He is the director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter
  • john dupre take on science

    Most obvious of such aspects is that of the staggeringly increased respect that accrues to components of science that provides a central role to mathematical ways. It's not in the least my aim to banish arithmetic from science. Arithmetic features a big selection of uses in numerous scientific enterprises, several of them entirely legitimate. The probabilistic views of relation mentioned within the preceding chapter.
  • key event/moment in the philosopher's work

    Dupré advocates a philosophical system model of science, as against the common notion of reductionism. Physical Reductionism suggests that each one science could also be reduced to physical explanations, thanks to causative or metrological links that get between the objects studied within the higher sciences and also the objects studied by physics.