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Birth of John Dupre July 3rd, 1952
John Dupre was born in Pembury, England on July 3rd, 1952. John is a British Philosopher of science, focused on life sciences. Most of John’s experience has been in the United States and the UK. He is a published author and well-respected Philosopher throughout the academic and science communities. Due to the heavy focus on physics and evolution, other perspectives in science have been neglected. To John this is a problem that must be addressed if we want to continue making advancements in scie- -
Secondary Edcuation and his contribution to academia
John completed his undergraduate degree in PPE at Oxford university. Dupre completed a two-year fellowship in the United States at Princeston and Standford Universities, from there John earned his PhD in Philosophy at Cambridge in 1981. John’s interest has always been in the philosophy of science with the perspective of life sciences, which was unusual then. Physics was the main topic of interest for many philosophers and was thought to be the most important subject within understanding nature -
Human Nature and The Limits of Science, 2001
John argues “our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking.” (Dupre 2001) John states that the theories in physics and evolutionary sciences are incomplete and misleading. Some philosophers may argue that John’s work is not helpful, does not offer solutions but only seeks to criticize well accepted theories. John Dupre’s words have created ripple effects throughout the philosophy of science, as philosophers begin to question t- -
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Director of Egenis, Centre for the study of life sciences
During John’s time at Exeter, he reintroduced philosophy, which had been inactive for twenty years or so. In 2000, multiple philosophy degrees were introduced, John retired from his chair in London and became the Professor of Philosophy of science at Exeter. In 2002, John became the full-time director of Egenis, ESRC Centre of Genomics in Society until 2012. During this time John gave lectures at a multitude of universities and explored gender studies through the eyes of genomics and worked on