JOHN DUPRÉ

CURRICULUM VITAE

John Dupré

B.A. Oxford, 1976; PhD, Cambridge, 1981

ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT

Professor of Philosophy of Science, 2000-; Director, Egenis, 2002-2022 (Consulting Director,

2022- ); Head of Sociology, 2001-2, University of Exeter.

Professor of Philosophy 1996-2000, Birkbeck College, University of London.

Assistant to Full Professor of Philosophy, 1982-96, Stanford University.

Junior Research Fellow, 1980-1982, St. John's College, Oxford:

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONOURS

2024, Elected to the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences.

2023, Elected International Member, American Philosophical Society.

2023, Donald Gordon Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies.

2023, Gifford Lecture series (six lectures), at the University of Edinburgh, on “Humans as

Processes”.

2022, Gifford Lecture delivered at the University of Aberdeen, “A Brief History of Form”.

2020, Elected International Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

2020, Fellow, Royal Society of Arts.

2018, Elected to Presidency of the Philosophy of Science Association.

2013, Diane Middlebrook and Carl Djerassi Professor of Gender Studies, Cambridge.

2011-13, President, British Society for the Philosophy of Science

2010, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science

2006, Spinoza Chair in Philosophy, University of Amsterdam

1985-86. Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center.

1978-80. Harkness Fellow of the Commonwealth Fund of New York.

SELECTED MAJOR GRANTS (as PI)

2012, ERC Advanced Investigator Award, A Process Ontology for Contemporary

Biology, €2m

2007, Principal applicant, renewal of ESRC Centre for Genomics in Society, £4.1m.

2005, ESRC, Stem Cells CBAR, phase 1, £290k

2005, AHRC, Research Grants Scheme, £97k, for Philosophical Issues in Genomics

2003, AHRB, Research Grants Scheme, £277k for Philosophy of Biology.

2002. Principal applicant to ESRC for £2.5m to establish a Research Centre for the

study of the Social and Economic Context of Genomics.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Everyone Flows, A process View of Human Life. Oxford University Press, in press.

Drawing Processes of Life. (Edited, with Gemma Anderson), Bristol: Intellect, 2022.

The Metaphysics of Biology. Cambridge, 2021.

Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology. (Edited, with Daniel J.

Nicholson.) Oxford, 2018.

Processes of Life: Essays in the Philosophy of Biology. Oxford, 2012.

Genomes and What to Make of Them. (With Barry Barnes). Chicago, 2008.

Darwin’s Legacy: What Evolution Means Today. Oxford, 2003

Humans and Other Animals. Oxford, 2002.

Human Nature and the Limits of Science. Oxford, 2001.

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

Harvard, 1993.