-
John Dupre was born on July 3rd 1952 in England
-
Dupré was educated at the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge and taught at Oxford, Stanford University and Birkbeck College of the University of London before moving to Exeter.
-
This book provides a systematic critique of essentialism, the view that nature contains a unique set of kinds that science aims to discover (‘carving nature at its joints’); reductionism, the idea that in principle everything should be explained in terms of the laws of fundamental physics; and determinism, the belief in a closed set of laws in terms that necessitate everything that happens.https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/john-dupre
-
Dupré was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of his work on Darwinism and is a former President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.
-
Dupré advocates a pluralistic model of science as opposed to the common notion of reductionism. Physical Reductionism suggests that all science may be reduced to physical explanations due to causal or mereological links that obtain between the objects studied in the higher sciences and the objects studied by physics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_tNisb1vrs -
John Dupre explores recent revolutionary developments in biology and considers their relevance for our understanding of human nature and human society. Epigenetics and related areas of molecular biology have eroded the exceptional status of the gene and presented the genome as fully interactive with the rest of the cell.
https://www.thethirdwayofevolution.com/people/view/john-dupre -
Dupree was elected Vice-President (and President-Elect) of the Philosophy of Science Association (USA). in 2020, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.