 Photo by courtesy of John Dupré |
John
Dupré Professor at Birkbeck College, University of London Malet Street London |
| Interessen- und Arbeitsschwerpunkte: Philosophie der Biologie (Klassifikation, Essentialismus, Reduktionismus), Verhaltensforschung, Wissenschaftstheorie |
| * July 3, 1952. 1976-1981 BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Oxford 1981 Ph.D. Cambridge Postgraduate work at Princeton and Stanford on a Harkness Fellowship 1980-82 Junior Research Fellowship at St John's College, Oxford 1982-1996 Member of the Stanford University Philosophy Dept. 1996 Professor of Philosophy, at Birkbeck College, University of London Professor of Philosophy of Science, Department of Sociology, University of Exeter |
| Veröffentlichungen |
| "Are Whales Fish?". Folkbiology, eds. S.Atran & D.L.Medlin (MIT). |
| "Against reductive theories of human behaviour". Proc. Aristotelian Society. Supp. Vol., 1998. |
| "The mental lives of nonhuman animals". Readings in Animal Cognition. Marc Bekoff, Dale Jamieson, Hg. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1996. |
| "Could There Be a Science of Economics?" Philosophy of Science. John A. French, u.a. Hg. University of Notre Dame Press, 1994. |
| The Disorder of Things. Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science. Harvard University Press, 1993. |
| "Species - theoretical contexts". Keywords in Evolutionary Biology. Evelyn Fox Keller, Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Hg. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1992. |
| The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality. Hg. Bradford Books, MIT, 1987. |
| Bei Amazon nachschauen | |
| Readings in Animal Cognition. Marc Bekoff, Dale Jamieson, Hg. MIT 1996. Taschenbuch - 379 Seiten. |  |
| The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science. Harvard University Press, 1996. Taschenbuch, 308 Seiten. |  |
| Keywords in Evolutionary Biology. Evelyn Fox Keller, Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Hg. Harvard University Press, 1994. Taschenbuch. | |
| Pessimistic induction on the history of science
All past theories have turned out false, so probably ours will too. The Disorder of Things. 1993 |
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