John Dupré

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John Dupré is affiliated with the following schools: University of Exeter, Birkbeck, University of London, University of Oxford, Stanford University, University of Cambridge

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According to Wikipedia, John A. 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. Dupré's chief work area lies in philosophy of biology, philosophy of the social sciences, and general philosophy of science. Dupré, together with Nancy Cartwright, Ian Hacking, Patrick Suppes and Peter Galison, are often grouped together as the "Stanford School" of philosophy of science. In 2023, he was elected to the American Philosophical Society.

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John Dupré's Published Works

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The Latest on the best : essays on evolution and optimality (1987) (650)
Review of Kitcher: "The Advancement of Science: Science without Legend, Objectivity without Illusions" (1995) (564)
The disorder of things : metaphysical foundations of the disunity of science (1994) (535)
The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory (2000) (491)
Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa (1981) (392)
Human nature and the limits of science (2001) (391)
Fundamental issues in systems biology. (2005) (223)
Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism (2009) (217)
Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things (2009) (217)
Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (2012) (185)
Value-Free Science: Ideals and Illusions? (2007) (178)
Size doesn’t matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology (2007) (173)
The Disunity of Science (1983) (159)
Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science (2010) (154)
Genomes and What to Make of Them (2008) (138)
Processes of LifeEssays in the Philosophy of Biology (2012) (129)
Everything Flows : Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018) (115)
AN INTESTINAL HORMONE AFFECTING GLUCOSE DISPOSAL IN MAN. (1964) (115)
Metagenomics and biological ontology. (2007) (109)
In Defence of Classification (2001) (100)
Probability and Causality: Why Hume and Indeterminism Don't Mix (1988) (89)
Value-Free Science? (2007) (89)
Humans and Other Animals (2002) (87)
How Do Scientists Define Openness? Exploring the Relationship Between Open Science Policies and Research Practice (2016) (76)
Fact and Value (2007) (73)
Probabilistic Causality Emancipated (1984) (71)
Disciplinary baptisms: a comparison of the naming stories of genetics, molecular biology, genomics, and systems biology. (2007) (70)
The Polygenomic Organism (2010) (66)
Towards a processual microbial ontology (2012) (65)
The tree of life: introduction to an evolutionary debate (2010) (63)
A Manifesto for a Processual Philosophy of Biology (2018) (62)
Against Scientific Imperialism (1994) (56)
From molecules to systems: the importance of looking both ways. (2009) (52)
The metaphysics of evolution (2017) (52)
The biosocial genome? (2017) (46)
Viruses as living processes. (2016) (46)
The fight against doubt: How to bridge the gap between scientists and the public (2020) (44)
It Is Not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and/or Physics (2009) (44)
Blinded by “science”: How not to think about social problems (1992) (44)
I—John Dupré: Living Causes (2013) (40)
Is ‘Natural Kind’ a Natural Kind Term? (2002) (38)
Materialism, Physicalism, and Scientism (1988) (33)
Genomics and Evolution (2008) (29)
Understanding Contemporary Genomics (2004) (28)
The Study of Socioethical Issues in Systems Biology (2007) (27)
The Methodology of Economics: Or How Economists Explain . 2nd ed. Blaug Mark. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992, 286 + xxviii pages. (1994) (25)
Scientific Classification (2006) (24)
A Brief History of Work (1996) (22)
The Lure of the Simplistic (2002) (22)
Lessons Learned from Use of Cyclosporine for Insulin‐Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (1993) (22)
Promiscuous Realism: Reply to Wilson (1996) (22)
The Miracle of Monism (2008) (21)
Towards a philosophy of microbiology. (2007) (21)
New trends in evolutionary biology: biological, philosophical and social science perspectives (2017) (21)
A process ontology for biology (2014) (20)
Understanding viruses: Philosophical investigations. (2016) (19)
The Conditions for Existence (2010) (19)
Sex, Gender, and Essence (1986) (18)
Nicotinamide and prevention of diabetes (1992) (18)
Darwin's legacy : what evolution means today (2003) (18)
Sex-Linked Behavior: Evolution, Stability, and Variability (2017) (16)
What Genes Are, and Why There Are No 'Genes For Race' (2008) (16)
Emerging sciences and new conceptions of disease; or, beyond the monogenomic differentiated cell lineage (2011) (15)
Science and values and values in science: comments on Philip Kitcher's Science, Truth, and Democracy (2004) (15)
The Metaphysics of Biology (2021) (14)
Probabilistic Causality: A Rejoinder to Ellery Eells (1990) (14)
Nature after the genome (2010) (13)
Kinds of People (2001) (13)
On work and idleness (1995) (12)
The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will (1996) (12)
The role of behaviour in the recurrence of biological processes (2014) (12)
Darwin's legacy (2003) (11)
The Periodic Table and the Philosophy of Classification (2011) (10)
Scientific pluralism and the plurality of the sciences: Comments on David Hull's Science as a Process (1990) (10)
The Economic World View: Economics without mechanism (2001) (10)
Evolution and Gender (2001) (9)
Against Maladaptationism: or What’s Wrong with Evolutionary Psychology? (2008) (9)
Natural Categories and Human Kinds: Classification in the Natural and Social Sciences , by Muhammad Ali Khalidi (2015) (9)
Human Kinds and Biological Kinds: Some Similarities and Differences (2004) (9)
Introducing Nature after the Genome (2010) (9)
Response to Open Peer Commentaries on “The Study of Socioethical Issues in Systems Biology” (2007) (9)
Life as Process (2020) (8)
Processes, Organisms, Kinds, and the Inevitability of Pluralism (2018) (8)
Are There Genes? (2005) (8)
Genomics and Postgenomics (2016) (8)
Animalism and the Persistence of Human Organisms (2014) (7)
Sex-Linked Behavior: Evolution, Stability, and Variability. (2017) (7)
Human Nature (2003) (7)
Is Biology Reducible to the Laws of Physics (2007) (7)
Rejecting the Ideal of Value-Free Science Forthcoming in Value-Free Science: Ideal or Illusion (2007) (7)
Could There Be a Science of Economics (1993) (6)
Arbitrariness and bias in evolutionary speculation (1992) (6)
Hidden Treasure in the Linnean Hierarchy (2002) (6)
I–John Dupré (1998) (6)
Forum: The Philosophy of Classification (2011) (6)
The Fight for Science and Reason (2000) (6)
The Constituents of Life 2: Organisms and Systems (2012) (5)
The Metagenomic World-View: A Comment on Eric T. Juengst’s ‘Metagenomic Metaphors’ (2009) (5)
The gastrointestinal hormones. (1971) (5)
Managing the transition to open access publishing: a psychological perspective (2017) (5)
Real but modest gains from genetic barcoding (2007) (5)
IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE DRUGS IN DIABETES (1986) (5)
How the Mind Works. Steven Pinker (1999) (5)
Philosophy, Biology and Life: Are there Genes? (2005) (4)
Causality and Human Nature in the Social Sciences (2010) (4)
Wilkerson on Natural Kinds (1989) (4)
How Much of the Free Will Problem Does (the Right Kind of) Indeterminism Solve (2013) (4)
What the theory of evolution can’t tell us (2000) (4)
Biological identity (2020) (3)
The philosophical basis of biological classification (1994) (3)
Reinventing Canadian Defence Procurement: A View from the Inside (2007) (3)
What is the Nature of the Periodic Table as a Classification System (2011) (3)
What is Natural about Human Nature (2011) (3)
Comments on Philosophy of Science after Feminism, by Janet Kourany (2012) (3)
Unification Not Proved (1998) (3)
The Human Genome, Human Evolution, and Gender (2010) (3)
Drawing and the dynamic nature of living systems (2019) (3)
Process epistemology in the COVID-19 era: rethinking the research process to avoid dangerous forms of reification (2022) (3)
Let's not reignite an unproductive controversy (2009) (3)
The use of phenformin and metformin. (1977) (3)
Effects of bicarbonate on intestinal absorption. (1968) (3)
What's the Fuss about Social Constructivism? (2004) (2)
In Defence of the Baldwin Effect: A Reply to Watkins (2000) (2)
Towards a Political Philosophy of Science. (2015) (2)
Race and Gender (2005) (2)
The philosophical foundations of animal welfare (1990) (2)
Rejecting the Ideal of Value-Free Science (2007) (2)
Causally powerful processes (2021) (2)
Methodological Individualism and Reductionism in Biology (1994) (2)
Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity: Does it Make a Difference? (1997) (2)
The Inseparability of Science and Values (2012) (1)
Social Science (2016) (1)
Science in a Democratic Society (2013) (1)
Book Review:This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World Ernst Mayr (1999) (1)
Pulmonary Oxygen Toxicity (1997) (1)
Scientism, sexism and sociobiology: One more link in the chain (1993) (1)
Postgenomic Perspectives on Sex and Gender (2016) (1)
Rational Choice Theory (2001) (1)
Reply to TMS Wolever (1990) (1)
Some philosophical implications of the rehabilitation of group selection (1994) (1)
Hard and Easy Questions about Consciousness (2009) (1)
Optimization in Question (1992) (1)
You Must Have Thought This Book Was About You: Reply to Daniel Dennett (2005) (1)
The Constituents of Life 1: Species, Microbes, and Genes1 (2012) (1)
Darwin and Genomics: Regenia Gagnier interviews John Dupré (2010) (1)
Human Origins and the Decline of Theism (2005) (1)
By Way of Background (2008) (1)
A Note on the Debate Between Hjørland and Scerri on the Significance of the Periodic Table (2011) (1)
Book review symposium (2020) (1)
Pluralism and Process in Understanding Human Nature. (2015) (1)
The myth gene (2004) (0)
Book Review:Evolution as Entropy: Toward a Unified Theory of Biology Daniel R. Brooks, E. O. Wiley (1990) (0)
CONVERSATIONS WITH APES: REFLECTIONS O N THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF LANGUAGE (2016) (0)
Coping with Science, Gernot Bohme. 1992. Westview Press, Boulder, CO. 344 pages. ISBN: 0-8133-1237-X. $34.95 (1994) (0)
Part Two Classifying Biological Entities : Epistemologies of Life (2010) (0)
Contemporary feminist perspectives on biological science (1989) (0)
What Can Evolution Tell us About the Healthy Mind (2014) (0)
Creating a partnership (Space Shuttle launching) (1995) (0)
Process epistemology in the COVID-19 era: rethinking the research process to avoid dangerous forms of reification (2022) (0)
Book review: D. M. Walsh // organisms, agency and evolution (2017) (0)
Developmental systems theory (2010) (0)
Genes, Genomes, and Molecular Genetics (2008) (0)
The biopolitics of life Nikolas Rose The Politics of Lif (2008) (0)
Freedom of the Will (2001) (0)
New intervention modalities for the prevention of insulin-dependent diabetes (1995) (0)
Alexander Rosenberg , Instrumental Biology or The Disunity of Science . Reviewed by (1995) (0)
Review of Aaron Gillette, Eugenics and the nature–nurture debate in the twentieth century 2007, paperback edition, 2011, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012) (0)
The Structure of Biological Science. Alexander Rosenberg (1986) (0)
Genomics and Problems of Explanation (2008) (0)
What is the Theory of Evolution Good For (2005) (0)
Review of Rosenberg's "Instrumental Biology or the Disunity of Science" (1995) (0)
The Evolutionary Psychology of Sex and Gender (2001) (0)
Gender and the End of Biological Determinism (2021) (0)
The Charms and Consequences of Evolutionary Psychology (2001) (0)
Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann, The Fight against Doubt: How to Bridge the Gap between Scientists and the Public. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2018), 232 pp., $39.95 (cloth). (2020) (0)
Human reproduction and sociobiology (1983) (0)
Inductive Inference and its Naturalistic Ground: An Essay in Naturalistic Epistemology (1994) (0)
Philosophy of Science Association (2009) (0)
Understanding Contemporary Genomics1 (2012) (0)
Review of Sober's "Philosophy of Biology" (1996) (0)
Reviewof Sober's "From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy" (1996) (0)
Review of Aaron Gillette, Eugenics and the nature–nurture debate in the twentieth century 2007, paperback edition, 2011, New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2011) (0)
O It Is Not Possible to Reduce Biological Explanations to Explanations in Chemistry and / or Physics (2009) (0)
Natural Order and Human Dignity (2008) (0)
ELLIOTT SOBER Did Darwin Write The Origin Backwards? Philosophical Essays on Darwin’s Theory (2013) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2010) (0)
Letter to the Editor (1997) (0)
Sociobiology and the problem of culture (1987) (0)
Review. Concepts and methods in evolutionary biology. R Brandon (1997) (0)
Aristotle as the antidote to the Cartesian contagion. (2000) (0)
A fine book, but who’s it for? (2011) (0)
Deconstructing the gene (2006) (0)
A fine book, but who’s it for? (2012) (0)
Association Probabilistic Causality : A Rejoinder to Ellery Eells (2007) (0)
Chacun son Goux? Or, some skeptical reflections on flat bodies and heavy metal (2001) (0)
Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works. New York: W. W. Norton & Co (1997), 660 pp., $29.95 (cloth), $17.00 (paper). (1999) (0)
The Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology (2001) (0)
Review of Inmaculada de Melo-Martín and Kristen Intemann's The Fight Against Doubt (2019) (0)
[Late consequences of the war-time disruption of the family in Jewish students]. (1965) (0)
Genidentity and Biological Processes (2018) (0)
Rational Choice Theory and Genomics (2009) (0)
Genomics as power (2008) (0)
The Disorder of Things, John Dupre. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. 320 pages. ISBN: 0-674-21260-6. $35.00 (1994) (0)
What is the Theory of Evolution (2005) (0)
Are the differences between men and women to be explained by biology or by society (2014) (0)
Book Review:The Metaphysics of Evolution. David L. Hull, David Edward Shaner (1991) (0)
Reconciling Lion and Lamb? (2003) (0)
Wittgenstein and Forms of Life (1998) (0)
Open Science and Open Innovation in the Life Sciences - ESRC Cross-Linking Grant (2014) (0)
Towards a processual microbial ontology (2012) (0)
Introduction: Towards a philosophy of microbiology (2007) (0)
Review of Brandon's "Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology" (1997) (0)
Interview: John Dupré (2019) (0)
Are There Genes?1 (2005) (0)
Comments on Terry Eagleton's "Base and Superstructure Revisited" (2000) (0)
Social Empiricism By Miriam Solomon Bradford Books/MIT Press, 2001. pp. 175 + xi £21.95. (2003) (0)
Helga Nowotny;, Giuseppe Testa.Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age. Translated by, Mitch Cohen. 144 pp., app., bibl., index. Cambridge, Mass./London: MIT Press, 2010. $25 (cloth). (2012) (0)
Book Review:From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy Elliott Sober (1996) (0)
Probabilistic Causality. Ellery Eells (1992) (0)
Evolutionary Psychology: A Case Study in the Poverty of Genetic Determinism (2003) (0)
What Fodor got wrong (2010) (0)

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