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Junior Research Fellow
Dupré spent two years, from 1980-1982, as a Junior Research Fellow at St. John's College in Oxford. -
PHD
In 1981 John Dupré received his Ph.D. at Cambridge. -
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Teaching at Stanford University
After leaving St. Johns College, Dupré went to teach Philosophy at Stanford University from 1982 to 1996. During that time he was the Director for the Ethics in Society program in 1992-1993, he was also the co-director for the History and Philosophy of Science program for the following three years. -
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Books by John Dupré
The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality, edited and with an introduction (pp. 1-24). Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1987.
The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science. Harvard University Press, 1993. Pp. 308 + xi. Paperback edition, 1995.
Human Nature and the Limits of Science. Oxford University Press, 2001. Pp.201 + x. Paperback edition, September, 2003.
Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today. Oxford University Press, 2003, pp. 138 + ix. -
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Professor at Birkbeck College
After teaching at Stanford University, Dupré returned to the U.K. to teach Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. -
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University of Exeter
Dupré started at Exeter while teaching at Birkbeck, as a Senior Research Fellow. He helped reintroduce philosophy at Exeter, and when undergraduate degrees in Philosophy started in 2000, he resigned from Birkbeck and became a professor of Philosophy of Science, which he still teaches to this day. -
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Egenis
In 2002 Dupré became the director of Egenis, the Economic and Social Reseach Council (ESRC) Centre for the Genomics in Society where he focused on the philosophical issues dealing with genetics and genomics. Then he leads the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences starting in July of 2013, where he focused on the ontology dealing with biological and biomedical sciences. -
Why Philosophy of Biology
When the Centre for Science and Philosophy was launched at the University of Bristol, Dupré gave a speech on Why Philosophy of Biology?