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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

John Dupré is affiliated with the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom. Their research spans various topics within the history and philosophy of science, genetics, and broader interdisciplinary fields. Their work intersects with subfields such as History and Philosophy of Science, Genetics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Plant Science, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their publication record includes numerous papers across multiple influential venues. Frequent publication venues are:

  • Philosophy of Science
  • European Journal for Philosophy of Science
  • Synthese
  • Epistemology & Philosophy of Science
  • Diabetologia

Their recent papers include:

  • "The Disunity of Science and the Unity of the World Presidential Address, PSA 2022" (2023), Philosophy of Science
  • "Process epistemology in the COVID-19 era: rethinking the research process to avoid dangerous forms of reification" (2022), European Journal for Philosophy of Science
  • "Causally powerful processes" (2021), Synthese
  • "Growth and development of islet autoimmunity and type 1 diabetes in children genetically at risk" (2021), Diabetologia
  • "Life as Process" (2020), Epistemology & Philosophy of Science

Among book publications, John Dupré has works published by Cambridge University Press and Intellect, including:

  • The Metaphysics of Biology (2021), published by Cambridge University Press
  • Drawing Processes of Life (2023), published by Intellect

Their research covers several main topics, such as:

  • Philosophy and History of Science
  • Origins and Evolution of Life
  • Plant and Biological Electrophysiology Studies
  • Misinformation and Its Impacts
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • Ecosystem dynamics and resilience

John Dupré has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors, including:

  • Kevin Elliott
  • Alan C. Love
  • Angela Potochnik
  • James Owen Weatherall
  • Charlotte Werndl

They have been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010)

Best Publications

  • The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science

    John Dupré

  • The advancement of science : science without legend, objectivity without illusions

    John Dupre;Philip Kitcher

  • Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa

    John Dupre

  • Human nature and the limits of science

    John Dupré

  • The Latest on the best : essays on evolution and optimality

    John Dupré

  • Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology

    John Dupré

  • Varieties of Living Things: Life at the Intersection of Lineage and Metabolism

    John Dupré;Maureen A. O'Malley

  • The Social Construction of What

    John Dupre;Ian Hacking

  • The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory

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  • Fundamental issues in systems biology.

    Maureen A. O'Malley;John Dupré

  • Value-free science? : ideals and illusions

    Harold Kincaid;John Dupré;Alison Wylie

  • Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

    Eric Bapteste;Maureen A O'Malley;Robert G Beiko;Marc Ereshefsky

  • Genomes and What to Make of Them

    Barry Barnes;John Dupré

  • Processes of LifeEssays in the Philosophy of Biology

    John Dupré

  • Humans and Other Animals

    John Dupré

  • Size doesn’t matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology

    Maureen A. O’Malley;John Dupré

  • The Disunity of Science

    John Dupré

  • Metagenomics and biological ontology

    John Dupré;Maureen A. O’Malley

  • A manifesto for a processual philosophy of biology

    John A. Dupre;Daniel J. Nicholson

  • In Defence of Classification

    John Dupré

  • Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science

    John Dupré

  • Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things

    William Martin;Tal Dagan;John Dupre;François-Joseph Lapointe

Frequent Co-Authors

William Martin
William Martin Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Robert G. Beiko
Robert G. Beiko Dalhousie University
Nancy Cartwright
Nancy Cartwright Durham University
Patrick Bateson
Patrick Bateson University of Cambridge
Daphna Joel
Daphna Joel Tel Aviv University
Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking University of Toronto
Brigitte Nerlich
Brigitte Nerlich University of Nottingham
Philip Kitcher
Philip Kitcher Columbia University

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