Social and Political Sciences, Philosophy, and Anthropology

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Professor John Dupré

MA (Oxon), PhD (Cantab), FAAAS, FRSA

Director of Egenis, Professor (Philosophy of Science)

j.a.dupre@exeter.ac.uk

5127

01392 725127

Byrne House GF6

Overview

I am a philosopher of science, with a main focus on philosophy of biology. For 20 years, 2002-2022, I was Director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, which from 2002-2012 was the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society. I now serve as Consulting Director.

I received my Ph.D at Cambridge in 1981 after spending two years studying in the U.S. as a Harkness Fellow. I was then a Junior Research Fellow at St. John’s College, Oxford, for two years before taking up a post in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University, where I taught until 1996. I 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. 

At Exeter I have headed the reintroduction of philosophy, which had been dormant at Exeter since the department was closed in the mid-eighties. Several undergraduate philosophy degrees were launched in 2000, at which time I resigned my chair in London and was appointed at Exeter as Professor of Philosophy of Science. In 2002 I assumed the full-time directorship of Egenis, the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society.

During the period 1st April to 15th June 2006 I was the Spinoza Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam, duties of which included two public lectures as well as leading a series of seminars with staff and graduate students at the University. In Autumn 2013 I spent a term in Cambridge as Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Visiting Professor of Gender Studies, where I worked on rethinking ideas about sex and gender from a processual perspective.

In 2010 I was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. For 2011-13, I was President of the British Society for the Philosophy of Science.  From Jan 1, 2019 to December 31, 2022, I have been Vice-President, President and President-Elect of the Philosophy of Science Association, serving as President for 2021-22. In 2020 I was eleced an Honorary International Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2023 I was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society.

In November 2022 I delivered a Gifford lecture at the University of Aberdeen, "A Brief History of Form". In May 2023, I gave a series of six Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh, entitled "A Process Perspective on Human Life".

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Research

My research career has been in the philosophy of science, but especially the philosophy of biology. Particular interests include: biological classification, the relation of technical to everyday biological kinds and to traditional problems of essentialism; adaptationism and optimality; reductionism; indeterministic accounts of causality; evolution and the limitations of evolutionary psychology; and the biological basis of sex and gender. I also worked for several years on issues in the philosophy of economics.

My book The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Harvard University Press, 1993) articulates a non-reductive, indeterministic, and pluralistic metaphysics, and argues that this is much better suited to understanding contemporary science, especially biology, than is the monistic physicalism assumed by most contemporary philosophers of science. This general picture provided the background for extended critical discussion of evolutionary psychology and rational choice theory in Human Nature and the Limits of Science (Oxford University Press, 2001), in which I also insist on the necessity of a pluralistic understanding of human nature. Humans and Other Animals (Oxford, 2002) collects a number of papers on issues very broadly related to the classification of organisms. And my book, Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (Oxford, 2003) provides a brief and sometimes provocative account of the contemporary implications of evolution, addressed to a general audience.

From 2002-12, as Director of the ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society (Egenis), my research focused on philosophical issues concerning the interpretation and implications of genetics and genomics. I have written a book in collaboration with Professor Barry Barnes on a sociological and philosophical introduction to contemporary genomics: Genomes and What to Make of Them (University of Chicago Press, 2008). A number of my recent papers on these topics are collected in Processes of LIfe: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (Oxford University Press, 2012).

From 2013 to 2018, I was working on the ERC-funded project, A Process Ontology for Contemporary Biology. This project aimed to articualte a process-centred ontology that, I argue, is better suited to understanding the biological and biomedical sciences than traditional thing- or substance-based ontologies. The key output of this project was the book, co-edited with Daniel Nicholson, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, available open access from Oxford University Press. A more recent output from the project is a book co-edited with Anne Sophie Meincke, Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology (Routledge, 2020).

My most recent research project following from the ERC project is Representing Biology as Process, a collaboration between myself, Artist Gemma Anderson, and Cell Biologist James Wakefield. A book, co-edited with Anderson, Drawing Processes of Life: Molecules, Cells, Organisms, wa published by Intellect Press iin 2023.

My most recent work has addressed the implications of a process ontology for our understanding of human existence, and was presented as the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh in 2023.

For more information on my books, see my 'Other' page.

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Supervision

  • Philosophy of science
  • Philosophy of biology
  • Philosophy and sociology of genomics
  • Philosophy of mind, especially evolutionary psychology
  • Philosophy of the social sciences and economics

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Publications

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2023

2022

2021

  • Dupre J. (2021) Caveat Editor: Competing Takes on CRISPR, Los Angeles Review of Books. [PDF]

2020

  • Meincke AS, Dupré J. (2020) Biological identity: Why metaphysicians and philosophers of biology should talk to one another, Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology, 1-21.
  • Dupré J. (2020) Processes within processes: A dynamic account of living beings and its implications for understanding the human individual, Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology, 149-166.
  • Dupre J. (2020) Life as Process, Epistemology and Philosophy of Science, volume 57, pages 96-96.
  • Dupre J. (2020) The Fight against Doubt: How to Bridge the Gap between Scientists and the Public, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, volume 87, no. 1, pages 204-207. [PDF]

2019

  • Jones A. (2019) Kant’s influence on the development of biology: A critical consideration from historical and contemporary perspectives.
  • Suarez Diaz J. (2019) The Hologenome Concept of Evolution: a Philosophical and Biological Study.
  • Karaca C. (2019) Relational Basis of the Organism's Self-organization -- A Philosophical Discussion.
  • Hughes P. (2019) Pansentient Monism: Formulating Panpsychism as a Genuine Psycho-Physical Identity Theory.
  • Anderson G, Dupre J, Wakefield JG. (2019) Drawing and the dynamic nature of living systems, ELIFE, volume 8, article no. ARTN e46962, DOI:10.7554/eLife.46962. [PDF]
  • Meincke AS, Dupré J. (2019) Biological Identity. Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology, Routledge.

2018

  • Dupre JA. (2018) Making Life Visible.
  • Dupré J. (2018) Human nature: A process perspective, Why We Disagree About Human Nature, 92-107.
  • Racovski T. (2018) Evolutionary novelty: a philosophical and historical investigation.
  • Dupre JA, Bertolaso M. (2018) A Processual Perspective on Cancer, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, Oxford University Press, 321-336.
  • Dupre JA. (2018) Processes, Organisms, Kinds, and the Inevitability of Pluralism, Individuation across Experimental and Theoretical Sciences, Oxford University Press.
  • Dupre JA, Nicholson D. (2018) A manifesto for a processual philosophy of biology, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, Oxford University Press, 3-45.
  • Nicholson D, Dupre J. (2018) Everything flows: towards a processual philosophy of biology, Oxford University Press.

2017

2016

  • Dupré J. (2016) Against Maladaptationism: or What’s Wrong with Evolutionary Psychology?1, Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes, 165-180, DOI:10.4324/9781315591148-11.
  • Dupre JA. (2016) Realism, Pluralism, and Naturalism in Biology, Rethinking Order: After the Laws of Nature, Bloomsbury Press, 99-118.
  • Dupre JA. (2016) A Postgenomic Perspectives on Sex and Gender, How Biology Shapes Philosophy: New Foundations for Naturalism, Cambridge University Press, 227-246.
  • Dupre JA, Guttinger. (2016) Genomics and Postgenomics, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • Pradeu T, Kostyrka G, Dupré J. (2016) Understanding viruses: Philosophical investigations, Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci, volume 59, pages 57-63, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsc.2016.02.008. [PDF]
  • Levin N, Leonelli S, Weckowska D, Castle D, Dupre J. (2016) How Do Scientists Understand Openness? Exploring the Relationship between Open Science Policies and Research Practice, Bulletin of Science Technology and Society.

2015

  • Dupré J. (2015) A process ontology for biology, Physiology News, no. Autumn 2015, pages 33-34, DOI:10.36866/pn.100.33. [PDF]
  • Dupré J. (2015) Preface, DOI:10.4324/9781315619934.
  • Dupre JA. (2015) “The Polygenomic Organism”, Postgenomics, 56-72.
  • Dupre JA. (2015) For Objective, Value-Laden, Contextualist Pluralism, Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry III: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change, Oxford University Press, 20-23.
  • Dupre J. (2015) Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences, by Muhammad Ali Khalidi, Mind, volume 124, no. 493, pages 358-361, DOI:10.1093/mind/fzu170. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2015) Towards a Political Philosophy of Science, The Philosophy of Philip Kitcher, Oxford University Press.
  • Dupre JA. (2015) What Can Evolution Tell us About the Healthy Mind?, Philosophical Issues in Psychiatry III: The Nature and Sources of Historical Change, eds.,, Oxford University Press, 2015, 259-271.
  • Dupre JA. (2015) Pluralism and Process in Understanding Human Nature, Rivista di Filosofia Neo-Scolastica.

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

  • Dupré J. (2010) Scientism, sexism and sociobiology: One more link in the chain, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 16, no. 2, pages 292-292, DOI:10.1017/s0140525x0003003x. [PDF]
  • Dupré J. (2010) Sociobiology and the problem of culture, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 10, no. 1, pages 75-76, DOI:10.1017/s0140525x0005634x. [PDF]
  • Dupré J, Gagnier R. (2010) Darwin and Genomics: Regenia Gagnier interviews John Dupré, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, volume 0, no. 11, DOI:10.16995/ntn.591. [PDF]
  • Dupré J. (2010) What Fodor got wrong, The Philosophers' Magazine, no. 50, pages 118-120, DOI:10.5840/tpm20105086. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) Are There 'Genes for' Traits?, BioNews, no. 548. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) Technologische Tiere: Was ist Natürlich an der Menschlichen Natur?, Polar, volume 6, pages 81-88. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) The Human Genome, Human Evolution, and Gender, Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory, volume 17, no. 4, pages 540-548, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8675.2010.00613.x. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) The Conditions for Existence. Review of John O. Reiss, `Not By Design: Retiring Darwin’s Watchmaker', American Scientist: the Magazine of Sigma XI, the Scientific Research Society, volume 98, no. 2, pages 170-172. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) Developmental Systems Theory, The Philosophers' Magazine, volume 50, pages 38-39, article no. 16. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) What Fodor Got Wrong. Review of Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini, `What Darwin Got Wrong', The Philosophers’ Magazine, volume 50, pages 118-120, article no. 56. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) Interview with John Dupré, Philosophy of Science: Five Questions, Automatic Press, 13-26.
  • Dupre JA. (2010) How to be Naturalistic Without Being Simplistic in the Study of Human Nature, Naturalism and Normativity, Columbia University Press, 289-303.
  • Dupre JA. (2010) Postgenomic Darwinism, Darwin, Cambridge University Press, 150-171.
  • Parry S, Dupre JA. (2010) Nature After the Genome, Blackwell Pub.
  • Dupre JA. (2010) Causality and Human Nature in the Social Sciences, Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie, volume 62, no. Special issue 50, pages 507-525. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2010) The Polygenomic Organism, Sociological Review, volume 58, no. Supplement 1, pages 19-31.
  • Parry S, Dupre JA. (2010) Introducing Nature After the Genome, Sociological Review, volume 58, no. Supplement S1, pages 3-16, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-954X.2010.01908.x.
  • Dupre J. (2010) Review of Daniel P. Steel, `Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science', Philosophical Review, volume 119, no. 1, pages 123-126, DOI:10.1215/00318108-2009-034. [PDF]
  • O'Malley MA, Martin W, Dupre J. (2010) The Tree of Life: Introduction to an Evolutionary Debate, Biology and Philosophy, volume 25, no. 4, pages 441-453, DOI:10.1007/s10539-010-9208-4. [PDF]

2009

  • Dupre JA. (2009) Más allá del Darwinismo (`Beyond Darwinism'), Cienca Hoy, volume 19, no. 113, pages 8-9. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2009) Podium: Darwinism May Hold the Key to Knowing What it is to be Human, The Independent (UK Newspaper). [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2009) It's time to move on from 'darwinism', Western Morning News. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2009) Rational Choice Theory and Genomics, Occasion: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Humanities, volume 1, no. 1, pages 96-109. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2009) It is Not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics?, Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Biology, Wiley-Blackwell, 32-47, DOI:10.1002/9781444314922.ch2.
  • Dupre J, Griffiths PE. (2009) Let's not reignite an unproductive controversy, NATURE, volume 458, no. 7239, pages 702-702, DOI:10.1038/458702a. [PDF]
  • Powell A, Dupre JA. (2009) From Molecules to Systems: The Importance of Looking Both Ways, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, volume 40, no. 1, pages 54-64, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsc.2008.12.007.
  • Dupré J, O'Malley MA. (2009) Varieties of living things: Life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism, Philosophy & Theory in Biology, volume 1, no. Fall. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2009) Hard and Easy Questions about Consciousness, Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy: Essays for P.M.S. Hacker, Oxford University Press, 228-249.
  • Dupre JA, O'Malley MA. (2009) Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism, Philosophy and Theory in Biology, volume 1, DOI:10.3998/ptb.6959004.0001.003.
  • Dupre JA, O'Malley MA. (2009) The Metagenomic World-view: A Comment on Eric T. Juengst's `Metagenomic Metaphors', New Visions of Nature, Springer.
  • Bapteste E, O'Malley MA, Beiko RG, Ereshefsky M, Gogarten JP, Franklin-Hall L, Lapointe F-J, Dupre J, Dagan T, Boucher Y. (2009) Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things, BIOLOGY DIRECT, volume 4, article no. ARTN 34, DOI:10.1186/1745-6150-4-34. [PDF]

2008

  • Dupre JA. (2008) Darwin’s Legacy Today, Society Now, pages 12-12. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2008) Climate Change and Microbes: Influence in Numbers, EnvironmentalResearchWeb. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2008) DNA is Dynamic. Opinion piece in special issue `GM Foods: The Wrong Debate?', Food Ethics, volume 3, no. 3, pages 5-5. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2008) Was Ist Der Mensch?, Rheinischer Merkur.
  • Dupre JA. (2008) The Biopolitics of Life. Review of Nikolas Rose, `The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century', The Lancet, volume 372, no. 9640, pages 708-708, DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61291-X. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2008) What Genes Are, and Why There Are No 'Genes For Race', Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, Rutgers University Press, 39-55.
  • Dupre JA. (2008) Against Maladaptationism: or What’s Wrong with Evolutionary Psychology?, Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes, Ashgate, 165-180. [PDF]
  • Barnes SB, Dupre JA. (2008) Genomes and What to Make of Them, University of Chicago Press.
  • Dupre JA. (2008) The Constituents of Life (the Spinoza lectures), Van Gorcum. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2008) What is a Human Being?, Was ist der Mensch?, De Gruyter, 51-53, DOI:10.1515/9783110209716. [PDF]

2007

  • Dupré J. (2007) Natura umana. Perché la scienza non basta.
  • Mueller-Wille SEW, Powell A, O'Malley MA, Calvert J, Dupre J. (2007) 'Disciplinary baptisms: A comparison of the naming stories of genetics, molecular biology, genomics and systems biology', History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, volume 29, no. 1, pages 5-32.
  • O'Malley MA, Dupre JA. (2007) Towards a Philosophy of Microbiology, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, volume 38, no. 4, pages 775-779, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.09.002. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA, O'Malley MA. (2007) Metagenomics and biological ontology, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, volume 38, no. 4, pages 834-846, DOI:10.1016/j.shpsc.2007.09.001. [PDF]
  • O'Malley MA, Dupre J. (2007) Size Doesn't Matter: Towards a More Inclusive Philosophy of Biology, Biology and Philosophy, volume 22, no. 2, pages 155-191, DOI:10.1007/s10539-006-9031-0.
  • O'Malley MA, Calvert J, Dupre J. (2007) The study of socioethical issues in systems biology, AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS, volume 7, no. 4, pages 67-78, DOI:10.1080/15265160701221285. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2007) Real but Modest Gains from Genetic Barcoding, Genomics, Society and Policy, volume 3, no. 2, pages 41-43, DOI:10.1186/1746-5354-3-2-41.
  • Powell A, O'Malley MA, Mueller-Wille S, Calvert J, Dupre J. (2007) Disciplinary baptisms:: A comparison of the naming stories of genetics, molecular biology, genomics, and systems biology, HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF THE LIFE SCIENCES, volume 29, no. 1, pages 5-32. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2007) Real but Modest Gains from Genetic Barcoding, response to Filipe O. Costa & Gary R. Carvalho, ‘The Barcode of Life Initiative: Synopsis and Prospective Societal Impacts of DNA Barcoding of Fish', enomics, Society and Policy, volume 3, no. 2, pages 41-43.
  • O'Malley MA, Calvert J, Dupre J. (2007) Response to Open Peer Commentaries on `The study of Socioethical Issues in Systems Biology', American Journal of Bioethics, volume 7, no. 4, pages W7-W9, DOI:10.1080/15265160701307720. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2007) Review of Nicholas Agar, `Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement', New Formations, volume 60, pages 150-153.
  • Dupre JA. (2007) Is Biology Reducible to the Laws of Physics? Review of Alexander Rosenberg, `Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology', American Scientist, volume 95, no. 3, pages 274-276. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2007) Fact and Value, Value-Free Science: Ideals and Illusions, Oxford University Press, 27-41.
  • Kincaid H, Dupre JA, Wylie A. (2007) Value-Free Science? Ideals and Illusions, Oxford University Press, DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195308969.001.0001.

2006

  • Dupré J. (2006) Are There Genes?, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, volume 56, pages 16-17, DOI:10.1017/s1358246105056092. [PDF]
  • Dupre J. (2006) El legado de Darwin: Qué Significa Hoy la Evolución, Katz Editores. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (2006) Deconstructing the Gene. Review of Lenny Moss, `What Genes Can't Do', Critical Quarterly, volume 48, no. 1, pages 117-121, DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8705.2006.00696.x.
  • Dupre JA. (2006) Nancy Cartwright, The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference.
  • Dupre JA, Haddock A. (2006) Natural Kinds, The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference.
  • Dupre J. (2006) Scientific Classification, Theory, Culture and Society: explorations in critical social science, volume 23, no. 2-3, pages 30-32, DOI:10.1177/026327640602300201. [PDF]

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

  • Dupre J. (1999) Review of Steven Pinker, `How the Mind Works', Philosophy of Science, volume 66, no. 3, pages 489-493, DOI:10.1086/392700. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA, Gagnier RA. (1999) Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio's "Literary/Cultural `Economies', Economic Discourse and the Question of Marxism", The New Economic Criticism, Routledge, 401-407.
  • Dupre JA, Gagnier RA. (1999) The Ends of Economics, The New Economic Criticism, Routledge, 175-189.
  • Dupre JA. (1999) Autonomy and Respectability for the Social Sciences. Review of Harold Kincaid, `Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences and Individalism and the Unity of Science', Journal of Economic Methodology, volume 6, no. 2, pages 291-296, DOI:10.1080/13501789900000018.
  • Dupre JA. (1999) Review of Ernst Mayr, `This is Biology: The Science of the Living World', Philosophy of Science, volume 66, no. 3, pages 505-506.
  • Dupre JA. (1999) Review of Tony Lawson, `Economics and Reality', Feminist Economics, volume 5, no. 1, pages 121-126.
  • Dupre JA. (1999) Are Whales Fish?, Folkbiology, MIT Press, 461-476.
  • Dupre JA. (1999) On the Impossibility of a Monistic Account of Species, Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, Cambridge University Press, 3-20.

1998

1997

  • Lewis J, Finke SRS. (1997) Om tingenes uorden: En samtale med John Dupré (‘On the disorder of things: A conversation with John Dupré’), Agora, volume 3, no. 4, pages 255-264. [PDF]
  • Dupre J. (1997) Letter to the Editor, Biology and Philosophy, volume 12, no. 3, pages 433-434, DOI:10.1023/A:1006587106163. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (1997) Review of Robert Brandon, `Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, volume 48, no. 2, pages 292-296, DOI:10.1093/bjps/48.2.292.

1996

  • Dupre JA. (1996) Review of Elliott Sober, 'From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy', Philosophy of Science, volume 63, pages 143-145.
  • Gagnier R, Dupre JA. (1996) A Brief History of Work, Journal of Economic Issues, volume 30, no. 2, pages 553-559.
  • Dupre J. (1996) Promiscuous Realism: Reply to Wilson, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, volume 47, no. 3, pages 441-444.
  • Dupre J. (1996) The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will, Philosophical Perspectives, volume 10, pages 385-402. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (1996) Metaphysical Disorder and Scientific Disunity, The Disunity of Science, Stanford University Press, 101-117.
  • Dupre JA. (1996) On the Necessity of Practising a Benign, or Utopian, Genetics. Review of Philip Kitcher, `The Lives to Come: The Genetic Revolution and Human Possibilities', London Review of Books, volume 18, no. 22, pages 17-18.

1995

  • Dupre JA. (1995) The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, volume 68, no. 3, pages 84-86. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (1995) Review of Alexander Rosenberg, `Instrumental Biology or The Disunity of Science', Canadian Philosophical Reviews, volume 15, no. 4, pages 283-285. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA, Gagnier RA. (1995) On Work and Idleness, volume 1, no. 3, pages 96-109, DOI:10.1080/714042251. [PDF]
  • Dupre J. (1995) Against Scientific Imperialism, PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association, volume 1994, Vol. Two, pages 374-381. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (1995) Review of Philip Kitcher, `The Advancement of Science: Science Without Legend, Objectivity Without Illusions', Philosophical Review, volume 104, no. 1, pages 147-151. [PDF]

1994

1993

  • Dupre J. (1993) Could There Be a Science of Economics?, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, volume 18, pages 363-378, DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4975.1993.tb00273.x. [PDF]
  • Dupre, J. (1993) The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science, Harvard University Press.
  • Dupre J. (1993) Scientism, Sexism, and Sociobiology: One More Link in the Chain, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 16, no. 2, pages 292-292. [PDF]

1992

  • Dupre J. (1992) Blinded by Science: How Not to Think about Social Problems, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 15, no. 2, pages 382-383. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (1992) Optimization in Question, Understanding Origins, D.Reidel/Kluwer Associates, 183-190.
  • Dupre JA. (1992) Review of Ellery Eells, `Probabilistic Causality', Isis, volume 83, no. 3, pages 528-529.
  • Dupre JA. (1992) Species, Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Press, 312-317.
  • Dupre J. (1992) Arbitrariness and Bias in Evolutionary Theorizing, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 15, no. 1, pages 98-99. [PDF]

1991

  • Dupre J. (1991) The Metaphysics of Evolution. David L. Hull , David Edward Shaner, The Quarterly Review of Biology, volume 66, no. 2, pages 191-191, DOI:10.1086/417148. [PDF]
  • Dupre JA. (1991) Conversations with Apes: Reflections on the Scientific Study of Language, Investigating Psychology: Sciences of the Mind after Wittgenstein, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 95-116.
  • Dupre JA. (1991) Review of David L. Hull, `The Metaphysics of Evolution', Quarterly Review of Biology, volume 66, no. 2, pages 191-191.
  • Dupre JA. (1991) Comments on Biology and Culture, The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines, University of California Press, 125-131.

1990

  • Dupre JA. (1990) Global vs. Local Perspectives on Sexual Difference, Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, Yale University Press, 47-62.
  • Dupre J. (1990) The Philosophical Foundations of Animal Welfare, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 13, no. 1, pages 19-20. [PDF]
  • Dupre J. (1990) Probabilistic Causality: A Rejoinder to Ellery Eells, Philosophy of Science: official journal of the Philosophy of Science Association, volume 57, no. 4, pages 690-698, DOI:10.1086/289588. [PDF]
  • Dupre J. (1990) Scientific Pluralism and the Plurality of the Sciences: Comments on David Hull's `Science as a Process', Philosophical Studies, volume 60, no. 1-2, pages 61-76.
  • Dupre JA. (1990) Review of Daniel R. Brooks and E.O.Wiley, `Evolution as Entropy', Isis, volume 81, no. 1, pages 149-150, DOI:10.2307/234151.
  • Dupre JA. (1990) The Mental Lives of Non-Human Animals, Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Behavior: Comparative Perspectives, Westview Press, 428-448.

1989

1988

1987

  • Dupre JA. (1987) Human Kinds, The Latest on the Best, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 327-348.
  • Dupre J. (1987) Sociobiology and the Problem of Culture. Commentary on Philip Kitcher, `Vaulting Ambition', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, volume 10, no. 1, pages 75-76. [PDF]
  • Dupre, JA. (1987) The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality, MIT Press.

1986

1985

  • Dupre JA. (1985) Review of John Yolton, `Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid', Ethics, volume 95, no. 4.
  • Dupre JA. (1985) Review of Brian Loar, `Mind and Meaning', Ethics, volume 95, no. 4.

1984

1983

1981

  • Dupre, J. (1981) Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa, Philosophical Review, volume 90, pages 66-91.

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Amazon.com: Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology: 9780198701224: Dupre, John: Books

Gemma Anderson-Tempini and John Dupré (eds.)

ISBN: 978-1-78938-766-7

Drawing Processes of Life: Molecules, Cells, Organisms

The Metaphysics of Biology (Elements in the Philosophy of Biology)

The Metaphysics of Biology

ISBN: 978-1009011103

Cambridge University Press (Cmbridge Elements in the Philoophy of Biology), 2021

Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology (History and Philosophy of Biology): Amazon.co.uk: Meincke, Anne Sophie, Dupré, John: 9781138479180: Books

Anne Sophie Meincke and John Dupré (eds.).

Biological Identity: Perspectives from Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Biology

ISBN: 978-1138479180

Routledge, 2020

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Nicholson, Daniel J. and J. Dupré, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology

ISBN: 9780198779636

Oxford: Oxford University Press (open access), 2018

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Dupré, J. Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.

ISBN: 9780199691982

Paperback edition, January 2014.

Reviews in Science; Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews; British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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Parry S. and Dupré, J., Nature After the Genome, Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
ISBN: 978-1-4443-3396-1
 

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Barnes, S.B. and Dupré, J., Genomes and What to Make of Them, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
ISBN: 978-0-226-17295-8

Paperback edition, 2013.
 

Dupré, J., The Constituents of Life (the Spinoza lectures), Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 2008.
ISBN: 978-9-023-24380-9
 

Dupré, J., with Kincaid, H. and Wylie, A., Value-Free Science: Ideal or Illusion, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
ISBN: 978-0-19-530896-9

Dupré, J., Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Paperback edition August, 2005.
ISBN: 978-0-19-928421-4

  • German translation, Darwins Vermachtnis, Suhrkamp Verlag, March 2005.
  • Spanish translation, El Legado de Darwin, Katz Editores, Buenos Aires, April 2006.

Dupré, J., Humans and Other Animals, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Paperback edition, August 2006.
ISBN: 978-0-19-924710-3

Dupré, J., Human Nature and the Limits of Science, Oxford University Press, 2001.
Paperback edition, September, 2003. Italian translation, Laterza Roma, 2007.
ISBN: 978-0-19-926550-3

Dupré, J., The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science, Harvard University Press, 1993.
Paperback edition, 1995.
ISBN: 978-0-19-926550-3

Excerpts reprinted as "The Disunity of Science", in Readings in the Philosophy of Science: From Positivism to Postmodernism, ed. Schick, T., Mayfield Publishing co., 1999.

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