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An Introduction
John Dupré 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. the beginning of his career started when he graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1981. Dupré published many books beginning in 1993 with The Disorder of Things. Metaphysical foundations of the disunity of science. John Dupré. (2020, March 3). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dupré -
The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science
originally published in 1993, Dupré introduces a strong and compelling argument against reductionism. he engages his readers in a long examination of three philosophical theses most closely associated with mechanistic metaphor: Essentialism, Reductionism, & Determinism.
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On Human Nature
Dupre's book illustrates that no single aproach has a complete picutre of human nature, and a monist approach leads to disaster. In Ch. 5 he explains why evolutionists conduct such "bad" science at two related levels of generality (biological determinism and bad metaphysics). Dupre's alternative to Evolutionary psychology is that the resources of the mind are constituted by our social context and not just ancestral genes. -
Contributions to the Philosophy of Biology
a book edited by John Dupre and Daniel Nicholson known as "everything flows" describes a deeper explanation of promiscuous realism. Where big things like organisms are structures of little things that like organs, cells, molecules, and subatomic particles.
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Youtube video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMGiZ_x_EdA the attached link is a video (ten minute video, sorry) further helps and explains more on John Dupres ideas and theories. he has a brief talk on what he thinks of "things and stuff". quite an interesting video to listen to!
