John Dupré

John Dupré is a professor of the philosophy of science at the University of Exeter, and director of Egenis, the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, which he founded in 2002. He received a PhD from Cambridge in 1981, and has subsequently worked at Oxford, Stanford, and Birkbeck College, University of London before moving to Exeter. His books include The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (1993), Human Nature and the Limits of Science (2001), Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today (2003), and Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology (2012). His recent work has advocated a radically processual understanding of living systems, which is explored in a book co-edited with Daniel Nicholson, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology (open access, 2018), and in The Metaphysics of Biology (2021). He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, an honorary international member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the president of the Philosophy of Science Association.