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Professor John Dupré BA, MA, DPhil (Oxon), PhD (Cantab)

Publications

Books

The Constituents of Life (the Spinoza lectures), Amsterdam: Van Gorcum, 2008.

with Barnes, S.B., Genomes and What to Make of Them, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

with Harold Kincaid and Alison 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, 2002.

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

The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science, Harvard University Press, 1993.

editor of, The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1987.

Articles

with Griffiths, P.E., 'Science studies: let's not reignite an unproductive controversy', Nature, 458, April 2009, pp. 30-31.

with O'Malley, M.A., 'Varieties of living things: Life at the intersection of lineage and metabolism ', Synthese, 2009 forthcoming.

with Powell, A., 'From molecules to systems: the importance of looking both ways', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 40, 1, 2009, pp. 54-64.

with A. Powell, M. A. O’Malley, S. Mueller-Wille, and J. Calvert, 'Disciplinary Baptisms: A Comparison of the Naming Stories of Genetics, Molecular Biology, Genomics and Systems Biology', History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences, 29, 1, 2008, 5-32.

'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, 3, 2, 2007, 41-43.

with Maureen O'Malley, 'Size Doesn't Matter: Towards a More Inclusive Philosophy of Biology', Biology and Philosophy, 22, 2, 2007, pp 155-191.

with Maureen O'Malley, 'Metagenomics and Biological Ontology', Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 38, 4, 2007, pp. 834-846.

with Maureen O’Malley and Jane Calvert, 'The Study of Socioethical Issues in Systems Biology', American Journal of Bioethics, 7, 4, 2007, pp. 67-78.

with O'Malley, M.A., 'Introduction: Towards a philosophy of microbiology', Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 38, 4, 2007, pp. 775-779.

with O'Malley, M.A. and Calvert, J., 'Response to our commentators on “The study of socioethical issues in systems biology”', American Journal of Bioethics, 7, 4, 2007, pp. W7-W9.

'Scientific Classification', Special Issue of Theory, Culture and Society of 'Problematizing Gloabl Knowlege, 23, 2006, pp. 30-32.

'You Must Have Thought this Book Was About You: Reply to Daniel Dennett', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 70, 2005, pp. 691-5.

with Maureen O'Malley, 'Fundemental Issues in Systems Biology', Bioessays 27, 27, 2005, pp. 1270-6.

'Understanding Contemporary Genomics', Perspectives on Science, 12, 2004, pp. 320-338.

'Human Kinds and Biological Kinds: Some Similarities and Differences', Philosophy of Science, supp, 2004, pp. 892-900.

'What's all the fuss about social constructivism?', Episteme, 1, 2004, pp. 73-85.

'Science and Values in Science, Comments on Philip Kitcher’s Science, Truth and Democracy', Inquiry, 47, 2004, pp. 505-514.

'On Human Nature, Human Affairs', Journal of the Slovakian Academy of Sciences, 13, 2003, pp. 109-122.

'Is 'Natural Kind' a Natural Kind?', The Monist [special issue on the philosophy of biology], 85, 2002, pp. 29-49.

'The Lure of the Simplistic', Philosophy of Science, 69, supplement, 2002, pp. 284-293.

'Ontology IS the Problem, commentary on Paul W. Andrews, Steven W. Gangestad and Dan Matthews,', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 25, 2002, pp. 516-517.

'Evolution and Gender', Women: A Cultural Review, 12, 2001, pp. 9-18.

'In Defence of Classification', Studies in the History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 32, 2001, pp. 203-219.

'Planters vs. Weeders, review of Ullica Segerstråle, Defenders of the Truth: The Battle for Science in the Sociobiology Debate and Beyond', American Scientist, 89, 2001, pp..

'Comments on Terry Eagleton's Base and Superstructure Revisited', New Literary History, 31, 2000, pp. 241-245.

'In Defence of the Baldwin Effect: A Reply to Watkins', British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 51, 2000, pp. 477-479.

'What the Theory of Evolution Can't Tell Us', Critical Quarterly, 42, 2000, pp. 18-34.

'Against Reductive Theories of Human Behaviour', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, supp. Vol, 1998, pp. 153-171.

'Normal People', Social Research, 65, 1998, pp. 221-248.

'Om tingenes uorden [in Norwegian]: interview with Stale R.S. Finke and Jonathan Knowles', Agora, 1997, pp. 255-264.

'The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will', Philosophical Perspectives, 10, 1996, pp. 385-402.

with Regenia Gagnier, 'A Brief History of Work', Journal of Economic Issues, 2, June, 1996, pp. 553-559.

'Promiscuous Realism: Reply to Wilson', British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 47, 1996, pp. 441-444.

'Abstract of The Disorder of Things', Proceedings of the American Philosophical Association, 68, 1995, pp. 84-86.

with Regenia Gagnier, 'On Work and Idleness', Feminist Economics, 1, June, 1995, pp. 1-14.

'Methodological Individualism and Reductionism in Biology', Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supp. Vol, 1994, pp. 165-84.

'Some Philosophical Implications of the Rehabilitation of Group Selection', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 1994, pp. 619-620.

'On Scientific Imperialism', Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings, vol 2, 1994, pp. 374-381.

with Regenia Gagnier, 'Not in Our Brains [Commentary on a paper by Herbert Simon]', Stanford Humanities Review, 4, 1994, pp. 54-56.

'Sexism, Scientism and Sociobiology: One More Link in the Chain', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 16, 1993, p. 292.

'Could There Be A Science of Economics?', Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 18, 1993, pp. 363-378.

'Arbitrariness and Bias in Evolutionary Theorizing', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 1992, pp. 98-99.

'Probabilistic Causality: A Rejoinder to Ellery Eells', Philosophy of Science, 1990, pp. 690-698.

'The Philosophical Foundations of Animal Welfare', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 1990, pp. 19-20.

'Scientific Pluralism and the Plurality of the Sciences: Comments on David Hull's Science as a Process', Philosophical Studies, 60, 1990, pp. 61-76.

'Wilkerson on Natural Kinds', Philosophy, 64, 1989, pp. 248-251.

with Nancy Cartwright, 'Probability and Causality: Why Hume and Indeterminism Don't Mix', Nous, 22, 1988, pp. 521-536.

'Materialism, Physicalism and Scientism', Philosophical Topics, 16, 1988, pp. 31-56.

'Sociobiology and the Problem of Culture [commentary on Philip Kitcher's Vaulting Ambition]', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 1987, pp. 75-76.

'Sex, Gender and Essence', Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 11, 1986, pp. 441-457.

'Probabilistic Causality Emancipated', Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 9, 1984, pp. 169-175.

'The Disunity of Science', Mind, 92, 1983, pp 321-346.

'Sociobiology and Human Reproduction', Analysis, 43, 1983, pp. 210-212.

'Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa', Philosophical Review, 90, 1981, 66-91.

'Blinded by Science: How not to Think About Social Problems', Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 15, pp. 382-383.

Chapters in Books

with O'Malley, M.A., 'Philosophical themes in metagenomics', in D. Marco (ed), Metagenomics: Theory, Methods and Applications, Hethersett, Norwich: Horizon Scientific Press, 2009 forthcoming, http://www.horizonpr.

with O'Malley, M.A., 'A metagenomic world view: Comment on 'Metagenomic metaphors: New images of the human from "translational" ', in Drenthen, Martin, Keulartz, Jozef andProctor, James (eds), New Visions of Nature, Springer, 2009, pp..

with Hans-Johann Glock and John Hyman, 'Hard and Easy Questions about Consciousness', in (ed), Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophy, Essays for P.M.S. Hacker, Oxford University Press, 2009, pp.228-249.

'Against Maladaptationism: or What’s Wrong with Evolutionary Psychology', in Massimo Mazzotti (ed), Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes, Ashgate, 2008 March, pp.165-180.

'What Genes Are, and Why There Are No ‘Genes For Race’', in Barbara A. Koenig, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, and Sarah Richardson (eds), Revisiting Race in a Genomic Age, Rutgers University Press, 2008, pp.39-55.

'What is a Human Being', in Ganten, D., Gerhardt, V., Ingersoll, J-C.H. and Nida-Rümelin, J. (eds), Was ist der Mensch, Berlin: De Gruyter, 2008.

'Fact and Value', in H, Kincaid, J Dupré, A. Wylie (ed), Value-Free Science: Ideal or Illusion, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

'Nancy Cartwright', in Donald Borchert (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference, 2005 Dec.

with Adrian Haddock, 'Natural Kinds', in Donald Borchert (ed), The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, Macmillan Reference, 2005 Dec.

'Are There Genes?', in A. O’Hear (ed), Philosophy, Biology and Life, Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements, 2005, pp. 193-210.

'The Miracle of Monism', in David MacArthur and Mario de Caro (eds), Naturalism in Question, Harvard University Press, 2004.

'Evolutionary Psychology: A Case Study in Genetic Determinism', in D. L. Hull and M. van Regenmortel (eds), Promises and Limits of Reductionism in the Biomedical Sciences, John Wiley and Sons, 2002, pp. 233-243.

'Economics without Mechanism', in U. Maki (ed), The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of Economics, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 308-332.

with Regenia Gagnier, 'Chacun son Goux, Or, Skeptical Reflections on Flat Bodies and Heavy Metal', in J. Amariglio, S. Cullenberg and D. Ruccio (eds), Postmodernism, Economics and Knowledge, Routledge, 2001.

'Natural Kinds', in W.H.Newton Smith (ed), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 2000, pp.311-319.

'Reductionism', in W.H.Newton Smith (ed), A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Routledge, 2000, pp.402-404.

with Regenia Gagnier, 'The Ends of Economics', in M.Woodmansee and M.Osteen (eds), The New Economic Criticism, Routledge, 1999, pp. 175-189.

with Regenia Gagnier, 'Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio's 'Literary/Cultural 'Economies', Economic Discourse and the Question of Marxism', in M.Woodmansee and M.Osteen (eds), The New Economic Criticism, Routledge, 1999, pp.401-407.

'Are Whales Fish?', in D.L.Medin and S.Atran (eds), Folkbiology, MIT Press, 1999, pp.461-476.

'On the Impossibility of a Monistic Account of Species', in Robert A. Wilson (ed), Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp.3-20.

'Essentialism', in D.Garrett and E. Barbanell (eds), The Encyclopedia of Empiricism, Greenwood Press, 1998, pp.96-97.

'Metaphysical Disorder and Scientific Disunity', in P.Galison and D.Stump (eds), The Disunity of Science, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 101-117.

'Optimization in Question', in F.Varela and J.-P.Dupuy (eds), Understanding Origins, D.Reidel/Kluwer Associates (Boston Studies in the, 1992, pp. 183-190.

'Species', in E.Lloyd and E.F.Keller (eds), Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University Press, 1992, pp. 312-317.

'Comments on Biology and Culture', in J.Sheehan and M.Sosna (eds), Boundaries of Humanity, University of California Press, 1991, pp.125-131.

'Conversations with Apes: Reflections on the Scientific Study of Language', in J.Hyman (ed), Investigating Psychology: Sciences of the Mind after Wittgenstein, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1991, pp.95-116.

'Global vs. Local Perspectives on Sexual Difference', in D. Rhode (ed), Theoeretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference, Yale University Press, 1990, pp. 47-62.

'The Mental Lives of Non-Human Animals', in M. Bekoff and D. Jamieson (eds), Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of Behavior: Comparative Perspectives, Westview Press, 1990, pp. 428-448.

'Human Kinds', in J.Dupré (ed), The Latest on the Best, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1987, pp.327-348.

Reviews

'The Biopolitics of Life, Review of Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself', review of Nikolas Rose, The Politics of Life Itself: Biomedicine, Power, and Subjectivity in the Twenty-First Century, in The Lancet, 2008, August.

'Is Biology Reducible to the Laws of Physics?', review of Alexander Rosenberg, Darwinian Reductionism: Or, How to Stop Worrying and Love Molecular Biology., in American Scientist, 2007: pp.274-6.

'Review of Nicholas Agar, Liberal Eugenics', review of Nicholas Agar, Liberal Eugenics, in New Formations, 60, 2007: pp.150-153.

'Deconstructing the Gene', review of Lenny Moss, What Genes Can't Do, in Critical Inquiry, 48, (1) 2006.

'Review of Joseph LaPorte, Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change', review of Joseph LaPorte, Natural kinds and conceptual change, in Notre Dame philosophical reviews, 2004.

'Science and Values in Science', review of Philip Kitcher, Science Truth and Democracy, in Inquiry, 2004: pp. 505-514.

'Making Hay with Straw Men', review of Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature, in American Scientist, 2003: pp. 69-72.

'Horticultural Diversity in the Post-Positivist Garden', review of D. Wade Hands, Reflection Without Rules, in The Journal of Economic Methodology, 2003: pp. 531-5.

'Review of Brian Tokar (ed.), Redesigning Life: The Worldwide Challenge to Biotechnology', review of Brian Tokar (ed.), Redesigning Life: The Worldwide Challenge to Biotechnology, in Patterns of Prejudice, 36, 2003: pp. 81-83.

'Review of Robert Aunger (ed.), Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science', review of Robert Aunger (ed.), Darwinizing Culture: The Status of Memetics as a Science, in Mind and Language, 18, 2003: pp. 220-224.

'Review of Miriam Solomon, Social Empiricism', review of Miriam Solomon, Social Empiricism, in Philosophy, 2003: pp. 132-136.

'Review of Mary Midgley, Myths We Live By', review of Mary Midgley, Myths We Live By, in Philosophers Magazine, 2003.

'Reconciling Lion and Lamb?', review of Helen Longino, The Fate of Knowledge, in Metascience, 12, 2003: pp.223-226.

'Hidden Treasure in the Linnean Hierarchy', review of Marc Ereshefsky, The Poverty of the Linnean Hierarchy: A Philosophical Study of Biological Taxonomy, in Biology and Philosophy, 17, 2002: pp. 423-33.

'Review of Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?', review of Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, in Journal of Philosophy, 2002: pp. 673-676.

'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, in Studies in The History and Philosophy of the Biological and Biomedical Sciences, 32, 2001: pp. 169-177.

'Aristotle as the Antidote to the Cartesian Contagion', review of Edward Pols, Mind Regained, in Contemporary Psychology, 45, 2000: pp 262-264.

'Review of Norman Levitt, Prometheus Bedeviled', review of Norman Levitt, Prometheus Bedevilled, in The Sciences, March/Apri, 2000: pp. 40-45.

'Review of David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind', review of David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, in Faith and Philosophy, 17, 2000: pp. 395-401.

'Autonomy and Respectability for the Social Sciences', review of Harold Kincaid, Philosophical Foundations of the Social Sciences and Individalism and the Unity of Science, in Journal of Economic Methodology, 2, 1999: pp 291-296.

'Review of Tony Lawson, Economics and Reality', review of Tony Lawson, Economics and Reality, in Feminist Economics, 1999: pp. 121-126.

'Review of Stephen Pinker', review of Stephen Pinker, The Nature of Mind, in Philosophy of Science, 66, 1999: pp. 489-493.

'Review of Ernst Mayr, This is Biology', review of Ernst Mayr, This is Biology, in Philosophy of Science, 66, 1999: pp. 504-506.

'Unification Not Proved', review of Edward O Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, in Science, 280, 1998: pp 1395.

'Review of Robert Brandon, Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology', review of Robert Brandon, Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 48, 1997: pp.292-296.

'On the Necessity of Practising a Benign, or Utopian, Genetics', review of Philip Kitcher, The Lives to come, in London Review of Books, November, 1996: pp 17-18.

'Review of Elliott Sober, From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy', review of Elliott Sober, From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy, in Philosophy of Science, 63, 1996: pp. 143-145.

'Review of Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science', review of Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science, in Philosophical Review, 104, 1995: pp. 147-151.

'Review of Alexander Rosenberg, Instrumental Biology , or The Disunity of Science', review of Alexander Rosenberg, Instrumental Biology , or The Disunity of Science, in Canadian Philosophical Reviews, 15, 1995: pp.283-285.

'The Philosophical Basis of Biological Classification', review of Marc Ereshefsky, The Units of Evolution: Essays on the Nature of Species, in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 25, 1994: 271-279.

'Review of Mark Blaug, The Methodology of Economics', review of Mark Blaug, The Methodology of Economics, in Economics and Philosophy, 10, 1994: 138-145.

'Review of Hilary Kornblith, Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground', review of Hilary Kornblith, Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground, in Teaching Philosophy, 17, 1994: pp.368-370.

'Review of Paul Feyerabend, Science in a Free Society', review of Paul Feyerabend, Science in a Free Society, in Stanford Magazine, 1994: pp.12-13.

'Review of Elliott Sober, Philosophy of Biology', review of Elliott Sober, Philosophy of Biology, in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45, 1994: pp.1084-1087.

'Review of Ellery Eells, Probabilistic Causality', review of Ellery Eells, Probabilistic Causality, in Isis, 83, 1992: pp.528-529.

'Review of David L. Hull, The Metaphysics of Evolution', review of David L. Hull, The Metaphysics of Evolution, in Quarterly Review of Biology, 66, 1991: pp. 191.

'Review of Daniel R. Brooks and E.O.Wiley, Evolution as Entropy', review of Daniel R. Brooks and E.O.Wiley, Evolution as Entropy, Isis, (81) 1990: pp.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, in Biology and Philosophy, 4, 1989: pp. 107-119.

'Review of Brian Loar, Mind and Meaning,', review of Brian Loar, Mind and Meaning, Ethics, (Ethics (booknotes)) 1985: pp..

'Review of John Yolton, Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid', review of John Yolton, Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid, (Ethics (booknotes)) 1985: pp..