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Cambridge
Professor John Dupre received his Ph.D. from Cambridge University in England in nineteen-eighty-one. This was after his two years as a part of the Harkness Fellowship a program that is run by the commonwealth of New York City. The fellowship has the objective of advancing health policy and practice while also doing international comparative research. He then was a junior research fellow at St. John's Oxford University which is focused on advance research in the philosophy and science field. -
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Time as a professor
Professor Dupre spent about fifteen years at a post at Stanford college in the philosophy department. Here he typically was published at least once a year until he left to return to England where he took a position at Birkbeck college in London as a senior research fellow at Exeter. -
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Bringing back Philosophy
At Exeter he reintroduced philosophy as a department which was closed in the eighties. However, Professor Dupre played a major role in the college launching several philosophy degrees. He resigned 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. -
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ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society
Professor Dupre's work focused on the interpretation and implications of genetics and genomics. He wrote a book which he collaborated with Professor Barry Barnes on a sociological and philosophical introduction to contemporary genomics called Genomes and What to Make of Them -
Current works
Most recently professor Dupre has been working on a research project representing Biology as a process, and is collaborating with, Artist Gemma Anderson, and Cell Biologist James Wakefield. A book, co-edited with Anderson. He is also currently working on the implications of a process ontology for our understanding of human existence.