Professor John Dupré
Publications
Books
with S Parry, J Dupré, Nature after the genome, Blackwell Pub, 2010.
The Constituents of Life (the Spinoza lectures), Amsterdam, Van Gorcum, 2008.
with SB Barnes, Genomes and What to Make of Them, University of Chicago Press, 2008.
with H Kincaid, A Wylie, Value-Free Science: Ideal or Illusion, New York, Oxford University Press, 2007.
Darwin's Legacy: What Evolution Means Today, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005.
Humans and Other Animals, Oxford University Press (Clarendon Imprint), 2002.
Human Nature and the Limits of Science., Oxford University Press (Clarendon Imprint), 2001.
The Disorder of Things, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1993.
The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality, MIT Press, 1987.
Chapters
A metagenomic world view: Comment on 'Metagenomic metaphors: New images of the human from "translational", in Svart HEA (eds) New Visions of Nature, Springer, 2009
'Philosophical themes in metagenomics', in Marco D (eds) Metagenomics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Hethersett, Norwich: Horizon Scientific Press, 2009
Hard and Easy Questions about Consciousness, in Glock H-J,Hyman J (eds) Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy, Essays for P.M.S. Hacker, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 228-249
Against Maladaptationism: or What’s Wrong with Evolutionary Psychology, in Mazzotti M (eds) Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes, Ashgate, 2008, 165-180
What is a Human Being, in Ganten ,D ,Gerhardt ,V ,Ingersoll ,H J-C,Nida-Rümelin ,J (eds) Was ist der Mensch, De Gruyter, 2008
What genes are and why there are no genes for race, in Koenig ,B ,Lee ,S-J S,Richardson ,S (eds) Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, Fredericksburg, PA: Rutgers University Press, 2008, 39-55
Fact and Value, in Kincaid ,H ,Dupré ,J ,Wylie ,A (eds) Value-Free Science: Ideal or Illusion, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007
with A Haddock, Natural Kinds, in Borchert D (eds) The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference, 2005
Nancy Cartwright, in Borchert D (eds) The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference, 2005
Are There Genes?', in O Hear A (eds) Philosophy, Biology and Life, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 2005, 193-210
The Miracle of Monism, in DeCaro M,MacArthur D (eds) Naturalism in Question, Harvard University Press, 2004, 36-58
Evolutionary Psychology: A Case Study in Genetic Determinism, in Hull ,L D,Regenmortel V (eds) Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences, John Wiley and Sons, 2002, 233-243
with R Gagnier, Chacun son Goux, Or, Skeptical Reflections on Flat Bodies and Heavy Metal, in Amariglio ,J ,Cullenberg ,S ,Ruccio ,D (eds) Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge, Routledge, 2001
Economics without Mechanism, in Maki U (eds) The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2001, 308-332
Reductionism, in Smith N,H W (eds) Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 2000, 402-404
Natural Kinds, in Smith N,H W (eds) A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 2000, 311-319
On the Impossibility of a Monistic Account of Species, in Wilson RA (eds) Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, Cambridge University Press, 1999, 3-20
Are Whales Fish?, in Medin DL,Atran S (eds) Folkbiology, MIT Press, 1999, 461-476
The Ends of Economics, in Woodmansee M,Osteen M (eds) The New Economic Criticism, Routledge, 1999, 175-189
Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio's 'Literary/Cultural 'Economies', Economic Discourse and the Question of Marxism, in Woodmansee M,Osteen M (eds) The New Economic Criticism, Routledge, 1999, 401-407
Essentialism, in Garrett D,Barbanell E (eds) The Encyclopedia of Empiricism, Greenwood Press,, 1998, 96-97
Metaphysical Disorder and Scientific Disunity, in Galison P,Stump D (eds) The Disunity of Science, Stanford University Press, 1996, 101-117
Species, in Lloyd E,Keller EF (eds) Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Press, 1992, 312-317
Optimization in Question, in Varela F,Dupuy JP (eds) Understanding Origins, D.Reidel/Kluwer Associates, 1992, 183-190
Comments on Biology and Culture, in Sheehan ,Sosna JA,M (eds) Boundaries of Humanity, University of California Press, 1991, 125-131
Conversations with Apes: Reflections on the Scientific Study of Language, in Hyman J (eds) Investigating Psychology: Sciences of the Mind after Wittgenstein, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1991, 95-116
Global vs. Local Perspectives on Sexual Difference, in Rhode D (eds) Theoeretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, Yale University Press, 1990, 47-62
The Mental Lives of Non-Human Animals, in Bekoff M,Jamieson D (eds) nterpretation and Explanation in the Study of Behavior: Comparative Perspective, Westview Press, 1990, 428-448
Human Kinds, in Dupré J (eds) The Latest on the Best, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1987, 327-348
Conferences
Human kinds and biological kinds: Some similarities and differences, , vol. 71, no. 5, 2004, 892-900
The lure of the simplistic, , vol. 69, no. 3, 2002, S284-S293
Against reductionist explanations of human behaviour - I, , vol. 72, 1998, 153-171
Against scientific imperialism, , 1995, 374-381
Genomes between information and matter,
The one organism/one genome,
Journal articles
Emerging sciences and new conceptions of disease; or, beyond the monogenomic differentiated cell lineage, European Journal of Philosophy of Science, vol. 1, no. 1, 2011, 119-132
A Note on the Debate Between Hjorland and Scerri on the Significance of the Periodic Table, KNOWL ORGAN, vol. 38, no. 1, 2011, 9-+
with MA O'Malley, W Martin, The tree of life: introduction to an evolutionary debate, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 25, no. 4, 2010, 441-453 Publisher Website DOI
with S Parry, Introducing nature after the genome, SOCIOL REV, vol. 58, 2010, 3-16 DOI
The polygenomic organism, SOCIOL REV, vol. 58, 2010, 19-31 DOI
Across the Boundaries: Extrapolation in Biology and Social Science, PHILOS REV, vol. 119, no. 1, 2010, 123-126 DOI
CAUSALITY AND HUMAN NATURE IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES, KOLNER Z SOZIOL SOZ, 2010, 507-+
with E Bapteste, MA O'Malley, RG Beiko, M Ereshefsky, JP Gogarten, L Franklin-Hall, FJ Lapointe, J Dupré, T Dagan, Y Boucher et al, Prokaryotic evolution and the tree of life are two different things, BIOL DIRECT, vol. 4, 2009 DOI
with PE Griffiths, Let's not reignite an unproductive controversy, NATURE, vol. 458, no. 7239, 2009, 702-702 DOI
with A Powell, J Dupré, From molecules to systems: the importance of looking both ways., Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci, vol. 40, no. 1, 2009, 54-64 DOI
with MA O'Malley, 'Varieties of living things: Life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism, Philosophy and Theory in Biology., 2009
with MA O'Malley, J Dupré, Towards a philosophy of microbiology., Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci, vol. 38, no. 4, 2007, 775-779 DOI
with J Dupré, MA O'Malley, Metagenomics and biological ontology., Stud Hist Philos Biol Biomed Sci, vol. 38, no. 4, 2007, 834-846 DOI
with MA O'Malley, J Calvert, Response to open peer commentaries on "The study of socioethical issues in systems biology", AM J BIOETHICS, vol. 7, no. 4, 2007, W7-W9
with MA O'Malley, J Calvert, J Dupré, The study of socioethical issues in systems biology., Am J Bioeth, vol. 7, no. 4, 2007, 67-78 DOI
with MA O'Malley, Size doesn't matter: towards a more inclusive philosophy of biology, BIOL PHILOS, vol. 22, no. 2, 2007, 155-191 DOI
Real but Modest Gains from Genetic Barcoding, response to Filipe O. Costa & Gary R. Carvalho, ‘The Barcode of Life Initiative: Synopsis and Prospective Societal Impacts of DNA Barcoding of Fish', enomics, Society and Policy, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, 41-43
Real but Modest Gains from Genetic Barcoding, response to Filipe O. Costa & Gary R. Carvalho, ‘The Barcode of Life Initiative: Synopsis and Prospective Societal Impacts of DNA Barcoding of Fish’', Genomics, Society and Policy, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, 41-43
with A Powell, MA O'Malley, S Müller-Wille, J Calvert, J Dupré, Disciplinary baptisms: a comparison of the naming stories of genetics, molecular biology, genomics, and systems biology., Hist Philos Life Sci, vol. 29, no. 1, 2007, 5-32
Scientific classification, THEOR CULT SOC, vol. 23, no. 2-3, 2006, 30-32
What genes can't do, CRIT QUART, vol. 48, no. 1, 2006, 117-121
with MA O'Malley, Fundamental issues in systems biology., Bioessays, vol. 27, no. 12, 2005, 1270-1276 DOI
You must have thought this book was about you: Reply to Daniel Dennett, PHILOS PHENOMEN RES, vol. 70, no. 3, 2005, 691-695
Science and values and values in science: Comments on Philip Kitcher' s Science, Truth, and Democracy, INQUIRY, vol. 47, no. 5, 2004, 505-514 DOI
Understanding Contemporary Genomics, Perspectives on Science, vol. 12, no. 3, 2004, 320-338 DOI
What's all the fuss about social constructivism?, Episteme, vol. 1, 2004, 73-85
Human Kinds and Biological Kinds: Some Similarities and Differences, Philosophy of Science, 2004, 892-900
Darwinizing culture: The status of memetics as a science, MIND LANG, vol. 18, no. 2, 2003, 220-224
'On Human Nature, Human Affairs', Journal of the Slovakian Academy of Sciences, vol. 13, 2003, 109-122
Redesigning life? The worldwide challenge to genetic engineering., PATTERNS PREJUDICE, vol. 36, no. 4, 2002, 81-83
Ontology is the problem, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, vol. 25, no. 4, 2002, 516-+
The poverty of the Linnean hierarchy: A philosophical study of biological taxonomy, BIOL PHILOS, vol. 17, no. 3, 2002, 423-433
Is 'natural kind' a natural kind term? (Biology, philosophy), MONIST, vol. 85, no. 1, 2002, 29-49
'The Lure of the Simplistic', Philosophy of Science, vol. 69, no. Supplement, 2002, 284-293
'Planters vs. Weeders, review of Ullica Segerstråle, Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond', American Scientist, vol. 89, 2001
'Evolution and Gender', Women: A Cultural Review, vol. 12, 2001, 9-18
'In Defence of Classification', Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 32, 2001, 203-219
The social construction of What?, J PHILOS, vol. 97, no. 12, 2000, 673-676
In defence of the Baldwin Effect: A reply to Watkins, BRIT J PHILOS SCI, vol. 51, no. 3, 2000, 477-479
Mind regained, CONTEMP PSYCHOL, vol. 45, no. 3, 2000, 262-264
Comments on Terry Eagleton's 'Base and Superstructure Revisited', NEW LITERARY HIST, vol. 31, no. 2, 2000, 241-245
What the theory of evolution can't tell us, CRIT QUART, vol. 42, no. 3, 2000, 18-34
This is biology: The science of the living world., PHILOS SCI, vol. 66, no. 3, 1999, 504-506
How the mind works., PHILOS SCI, vol. 66, no. 3, 1999, 489-493
Economics and reality, FEM ECON, vol. 5, no. 1, 1999, 121-126
Consilience. The unity of knowledge, SCIENCE, vol. 280, no. 5368, 1998, 1395-1395
Normal people, SOC RES, vol. 65, no. 2, 1998, 221-248
Untitled, BIOL PHILOS, vol. 12, no. 3, 1997, 433-434
Concepts and methods in evolutionary biology - Brandon,R, BRIT J PHILOS SCI, vol. 48, no. 2, 1997, 292-296
Promiscuous realism: Reply, BRIT J PHILOS SCI, vol. 47, no. 3, 1996, 441-444
with R Gagnier, A brief history of work, JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ISSUES, vol. 30, no. 2, 1996, 553-559
From a biological point of view: Essays in evolutionary philosophy - Sober,E, PHILOS SCI, vol. 63, no. 1, 1996, 143-145
The solution to the problem of the freedom of the will, NOUS, 1996, 385-402
THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE - SCIENCE WITHOUT LEGEND - OBJECTIVITY WITHOUT ILLUSIONS - KITCHER,P, PHILOS REV, vol. 104, no. 1, 1995, 147-151
PHILOSOPHY OF BIOLOGY - SOBER,E, BRIT J PHILOS SCI, vol. 45, no. 4, 1994, 1084-1087
SOME PHILOSOPHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE REHABILITATION OF GROUP SELECTION, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, vol. 17, no. 4, 1994, 619-620
THE METHODOLOGY OF ECONOMICS - OR HOW ECONOMISTS EXPLAIN - BLAUG,M, ECON PHILOS, vol. 10, no. 1, 1994, 138-145
THE UNITS OF EVOLUTION - ESSAYS ON THE NATURE OF SPECIES - ERESHEFSKY,M, STUD HIST PHILOS SCI, vol. 25, no. 2, 1994, 271-279
SCIENTISM, SEXISM, AND SOCIOBIOLOGY - ONE MORE LINK IN THE CHAIN, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, vol. 16, no. 2, 1993, 292-292
PROBABILISTIC CAUSALITY - EELLS,E, ISIS, vol. 83, no. 3, 1992, 528-529
BLINDED BY SCIENCE - HOW NOT TO THINK ABOUT SOCIAL-PROBLEMS, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, vol. 15, no. 2, 1992, 382-383
ARBITRARINESS AND BIAS IN EVOLUTIONARY SPECULATION, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, vol. 15, no. 1, 1992, 98-&
PROBABILISTIC CAUSALITY - A REJOINDER TO ELLERY EELLS - DISCUSSION, PHILOS SCI, vol. 57, no. 4, 1990, 690-698
SCIENTIFIC PLURALISM AND THE PLURALITY OF THE SCIENCES, COMMENTS ON HULL,DAVID 'SCIENCE AS A PROCESS', PHILOS STUD, vol. 60, no. 1-2, 1990, 61-76
EVOLUTION AS ENTROPY - TOWARD A UNIFIED THEORY OF BIOLOGY - BROOKS,DR, ISIS, vol. 81, no. 306, 1990, 149-150
THE PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF ANIMAL-WELFARE, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, vol. 13, no. 1, 1990, 19-&
WILKERSON ON NATURAL KINDS, PHILOSOPHY, vol. 64, no. 248, 1989, 248-251
MYTHS OF GENDER - FAUSTOSTERLING,A, BIOL PHILOS, vol. 4, no. 1, 1989, 107-119
with N CARTWRIGHT, PROBABILITY AND CAUSALITY, WHY HUME AND INDETERMINISM DONT MIX, NOUS, vol. 22, no. 4, 1988, 521-536
SOCIOBIOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF CULTURE, BEHAV BRAIN SCI, vol. 10, no. 1, 1987, 75-76
THE STRUCTURE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE - ROSENBERG,A, PHILOS SCI, vol. 53, no. 3, 1986, 461-463
SEX, GENDER, AND ESSENCE, MIDWEST STUD PHILOS, vol. 11, 1986, 441-457
PROBABILISTIC CAUSALITY EMANCIPATED, MIDWEST STUD PHILOS, vol. 9, 1984, 169-175
HUMAN-REPRODUCTION AND SOCIOBIOLOGY, ANALYSIS, vol. 43, no. 4, 1983, 210-212
THE DISUNITY OF SCIENCE + EPISTEMOLOGICAL PROBLEM OF SCIENCE LIMITS, MIND, vol. 92, no. 367, 1983, 321-346
Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa, Philosophical Review, vol. 90, 1981, 66-91
Others
'The Biopolitics of Life', review of Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, The Lancet, 2008
'Is Biology Reducible to the Laws of Physics?', review of Alexander Rosenberg, Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology, American Scientist, 2007, 274-276
Review of Nicholas Agar, Liberal Eugenics, New Formations, vol. 60, 2007, 150-153
'Deconstructing the Gene', review of Lenny Moss, What Genes Can't Do, Critical Inquiry, vol. 48, no. 1, 2006
Review of Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, 2004
'Science and Values in Science', review of Philip Kitcher, Science, Truth, and Democracy, Inquiry, 2004, 505-514
Review of Mary Midgley, Myths We Live By, Philosophers Magazine, 2003
'Horticultural Diversity in the Post-Positivist Garden', review of D. Wade Hands, Reflection Without Rules, The Journal of Economic Methodology, 2003, 531-535
'Making Hay with Straw Men', review of Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, American Scientist, 2003, 69-72
Review of Miriam Solomon, Social Empiricism, Philosophy, 2003, 132-136
Review of Brian Tokar (ed.), Redesigning Life: The Worldwide Challenge to Biotechnology, Patterns of Prejudice, vol. 36, 2003, 81-83
Reconciling Lion and Lamb? review of Helen Longino, The Fate of Knowledge, Metascience, vol. 12, 2003, 223-226
Review of Robert Aunger (ed.), Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, Mind and Language, vol. 18, 2003, 220-224
'Review of Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?', review of Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, Journal of Philosophy, 2002, 673-676
'Hidden Treasure in the Linnean Hierarchy', review of Marc Ereshefsky, The Poverty of the Linnean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 17, 2002, 423-433
'The Many Faces of Philosophy and Biology', review of Michael Ghiselin, Anthony O'Hear, Metaphysics and the origin of Species, Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of Evolutionary Explanation, Studies in The History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, vol. 32, 2001, 169-177
Review of Norman Levitt, Prometheus Bedevilled, The Sciences, 2000, 40-45
Review of David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind', Faith and Philosophy, vol. 17, 2000, 395-401
'Aristotle as the Antidote to the cartesian Contagion', review of Edward Pols, Mind Regained, Contemporary Psychology, vol. 45, 2000, 262-264
Review of Tony Lawson, Economics and Reality, Feminist Economics, 1999, 121-126
Review of Ernst Mayr, This is Biology', Philosophy of Science, vol. 66, 1999, 505-506
'Autonomy and Respectability for the Social Sciences', review of Harold Kincaid, Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences and Individalism and the Unity of Science, Journal of Economic Methodology, vol. 2, 1999, 291-296
'Unification Not Proved', review of Edward O Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, 280, 1998, 1395-1395
Review of Robert Brandon, Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 48, 1997, 292-296
'On the Necessity of Practising a Benign, or Utopian, Genetics', review of Philip Kitcher, The Lives to Come, London Review of Books, 1996, 17-18
Review of Elliott Sober, 'From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy', Philosophy of Science, vol. 63, 1996, 143-145
Review of Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science, Philosophical Review, vol. 104, 1995, 147-151
Review of Paul Feyerabend, Science in a Free Society, Stanford Magazine, 1994, 12-13
Review of Elliott Sober, Philosophy of Biology, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 45, 1994, 1084-1087
Review of Hilary Kornblith, Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground, Teaching Philosophy, vol. 17, 1994, 368-370
The Philosophical Basis of Biological Classification', review of Marc Ereshefsky, The Units of Evolution: Essays on the Nature of Species, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science,, vol. 25, 1994, 271-279
Review of Mark Blaug, The Methodology of Economics, Economics and Philosophy, vol. 10, 1994, 138-145
Review of Ellery Eells, Probabilistic Causality, Isis, vol. 83, 1992, 528-529
Review of David L. Hull, The Metaphysics of Evolution, Quarterly Review of Biology, vol. 66, 1991, 191-191
Review of Daniel R. Brooks and E.O.Wiley, Evolution as Entropy, Isis, vol. 81, 1990, 149-150
'Feminist Perspectives on Biological Science', review of Anne Fausto-Sterling, Lynda Birke, Sandra Harding, Myths of Gender, Women Feminism, and Biology, The Science Question in Feminism, Biology and Philosophy, vol. 4, 1989, 107-119
Review of Brian Loar, Mind and Meaning,, Ethics, 1985
Review of John Yolton, Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid, Ethics, 1985
