PUBLICATIONS
John Dupré
University of Exeter
Books
1.
The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality, edited and with an introduction (pp.
1-24). Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1987.
2.
The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science. Harvard University
Press, 1993. Pp. 308 + xi. Paperback edition, 1995.
Excerpts reprinted as "The Disunity of Science", in Readings in the Philosophy of Science: From
Positivism to Postmodernism, ed. T. Schick, Mayfield Publishing co., 1999.
3.
Human Nature and the Limits of Science. Forthcoming, 2001, Oxford University Press.
4.
Humans and Other Animals. Forthcoming, 2002, Oxford University Press.
Chapters in Books
5.
"Human Kinds," in The Latest on the Best, ed. J.Dupré, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1987, pp.327348.
6.
"Global vs. Local Perspectives on Sexual Difference," in Theoeretical Perspectives on Sexual
Difference, ed. D. Rhode, Yale University Press, 1990, pp. 47-62.
7.
"The Mental Lives of Non-Human Animals," in Interpretation and Explanation in the Study of
Behavior: Comparative Perspectives, eds. M. Bekoff and D. Jamieson, Westview Press, 1990, pp.
428-448.
Reprinted in Readings in Animal Cognition, eds. Bekoff and Jamieson, MIT press, 1996,
pp.323-336.
8.
"Comments on Biology and Culture," in Boundaries of Humanity, eds. J.Sheehan and M.Sosna,
University of California Press, 1991, pp.125-131.
9.
"Conversations with Apes: Reflections on the Scientific Study of Language," in Investigating
Psychology: Sciences of the Mind after Wittgenstein, ed. J.Hyman, Routledge and Kegan Paul,
1991, pp.95-116.
Italian translation published by Astrolabia, Roma, 1994.
Norwegian translation, in Agora 3-4 (1998), pp. 231-252.
10. "Optimization in Question," in Understanding Origins, ed. F.Varela and J.-P.Dupuy,
D.Reidel/Kluwer Associates (Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science), 1992, pp. 183-190.
11. "Species," in Keywords in Evolutionary Biology, eds. E.Lloyd and E.F.Keller, Harvard University
Press, 1992, pp. 312-317.
12. "Metaphysical Disorder and Scientific Disunity," in The Disunity of Science, eds. P.Galison and
D.Stump, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 101-117.
13. "Essentialism," in The Encyclopedia of Empiricism, ed. D.Garrett and E. Barbanell, Greenwood
Press, 1998, pp.96-97.
14. (With Regenia Gagnier.) "The Ends of Economics." In The New Economic Criticism, edited by
M.Woodmansee and M.Osteen, Routledge, 1999, pp. 175-189.
15. (With Regenia Gagnier.) "Reply to Amariglio and Ruccio's 'Literary/Cultural 'Economies',
Economic Discourse and the Question of Marxism,'" in The New Economic Criticism, ed.
M.Woodmansee and M.Osteen, Routledge, 1999, pp.401-407.
16. "Are Whales Fish?", in Folkbiology, ed. D.L.Medin and S.Atran, MIT Press, 1999, pp.461-476.
17. "On the Impossibility of a Monistic Account of Species," in Species: New Interdisciplinary Essays,
ed. Robert A. Wilson, Cambridge University Press, 1999, pp.3-20.
18. "Natural Kinds," in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, ed. W.H.Newton Smith,
Routledge, 2000, pp.311-319.
19. "Reductionism," in A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, ed. W.H.Newton Smith,
Routledge, 2000, pp.402-404.
20. "Economics without Mechanism." In The Economic World View: Studies in the Ontology of
Economics ed., U. Maki, Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 308-332.
21. (With Regenia Gagnier.) "Chacun son Goux, Or, Skeptical Reflections on Flat Bodies and Heavy
Metal," forthcoming in Postmodern Economics, ed. S.Cullenberg, Routledge.
22. "One Culture, Two Cultures, or Many Cultures", forthcoming in a volume edited by Matthias
Kross.
23. "Evolutionary Psychology: A Case Study in Genetic Determinism", forthcoming in a volume
edited by D. L. Hull and M. van Regenmortel.
Articles
24. "Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa," Philosophical Review, 90, 1981, pp. 66-91.
25. "The Disunity of Science," Mind, 92, 1983, pp. 321-346.
Reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, Vol. VI, ed. P.Athay, P.Grim, and
Ridgeview Publishing Company, 1983, pp. 63-88.
C.J.Martin,
26. "Sociobiology and Human Reproduction," Analysis, 43, 1983, pp. 210-212.
27. "Probabilistic Causality Emancipated," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 9, 1984, pp.169-175.
28. "Sex, Gender, and Essence," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 11, 1986, pp. 441-457.
29. "Sociobiology and the Problem of Culture." Commentary on Philip Kitcher's Vaulting Ambition,
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 10, 1987, pp.75-76.
30. (With Nancy Cartwright.) "Probability and Causality: Why Hume and Indeterminism Don't Mix,"
Nous, 22, 1988, pp. 521-536.
31. "Materialism, Physicalism, and Scientism," Philosophical Topics, 16, 1988, pp. 31-56.
32. "Wilkerson on Natural Kinds," Philosophy, 64, 1989, pp. 248-251.
33. "Probabilistic Causality: A Rejoinder to Ellery Eells," Philosophy of Science, 1990, pp. 690-698.
34. "The Philosophical Foundations of Animal Welfare," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 13, 1990,
pp.19-20.
35. "Scientific Pluralism and the Plurality of the Sciences: Comments on David Hull's Science as a
Process," Philosophical Studies, 60, 1990, pp. 61-76.
36. "Arbitrariness and Bias in Evolutionary Theorizing," Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 1992,
pp. 98-99.
37. "Blinded by Science: How Not to Think about Social Problems," Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
15, 1992, pp. 382-383.
38. "Sexism, Scientism, and Sociobiology: One More Link in the Chain," Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 16, 1993, p.292.
39. "Could There Be A Science of Economics?" Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 18, 1993, pp. 363378.
40. "Methodological Individualism and Reductionism in Biology," Canadian Journal of Philosophy,
Supp. Vol. 20, 1994, pp.165-84.
41. "Some Philosophical Implications of the Rehabilitation of Group Selection," Behavioral and Brain
Sciences, 17, 1994, pp.619-620.
42. "On Scientific Imperialism," Philosophy of Science Association Proceedings, vol. 2, 1994, pp.374381.
43. Abstract of The Disorder of Things (see #2, above). The Proceedings of the American
Philosophical Association, 68, 1995, pp.84-86.
44. "The Solution to the Problem of the Freedom of the Will." Philosophical Perspectives, 10, 1996,
pp. 385-402.
45. (With Regenia Gagnier.) "Not in Our Brains." Commentary on a paper by Herbert Simon,
Stanford Humanities Review, 4, 1994, pp. 54-56.
46. (With Regenia Gagnier.) "On Work and Idleness," Feminist Economics, 1, 1995, pp. 1-14.
47. (With Regenia Gagnier.) "A Brief History of Work," Jourrnal of Economic Issues 2, June 1996,
pp.553-559.
48. "Promiscuous Realism: Reply to Wilson," British Journal for Philosophy of Science, 47, 1996,
pp.441-444.
49. "Om tingenes uorden," (in Norwegian), interview with Stale R.S. Finke and Jonathan Knowles,
Agora 1997, pp.255-264.
50. "Against Reductive Theories of Human Behaviour," Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society,
Supplementary Volume 72, 1998, pp. 153-171.
Reprinted, in part, in The Philosophers' Magazine.
51. "Normal People," Social Research, 65, 1998, pp.221-248.
52. "Comments on Terry Eagleton's Base and Superstructure Revisited," New Literary History, 31,
2000, pp. 241-245.
53. "In Defence of Classification", forthcoming in Studies in The History and Philosophy of the
Biological and Biomedical Sciences.
54. "In Defence of the Baldwin Effect: A Reply to Watkins", British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science, 51, 2000, pp.477-479.
55. "What the Theory of Evolution Can't Tell Us", Critical Quarterly, 42, 2000, pp. 18-34.
56. "Evolution and Gender", Women: A Cultural Review, 12, 2000.
57. "Is 'Natural Kind' a Natural Kind?" The Monist (special issue on the philosophy of biology),
forthcoming.
58. "The Lure of the Simplistic", Philosophy of Science, forthcoming 2002.
Review Essays
59. "Feminist Perspectives on Biological Science." Review of Anne Fausto-Sterling, Myths of
Gender; Lynda Birke, Women Feminism, and Biology; Sandra Harding, The Science Question in
Feminism. Biology and Philosophy, 4, 1989, pp.107-119.
60. "The Philosophical Basis of Biological Classification." Review of Marc Ereshefsky (ed.), The
Units of Evolution: Essays on the Nature of Species. Studies in the History and Philosophy of
Science, 25, 1994, pp. 271-279.
61. Review of Mark Blaug, The Methodology of Economics. Economics and Philosophy, 10, 1994,
pp.138-145.
62. "On the Necessity of Practising a Benign, or Utopian, Genetics." Review of Philip Kitcher, The
Lives to Come, London Review of Books, November, 1996, pp.17-18.
63. Review of Stephen Pinker, The Nature of Mind, Philosophy of Science, 66, 1999, 489-493.
64. Review of David Chalmers, The Conscious Mind, Faith and Philosophy, 17, 2000, 395-401.
65. "Autonomy and Respectability for the Social Sciences." Review of Harold Kincaid, Philosophical
Foundations of the Social Sciences and Individualism and the Unity of Science. Journal of
Economic Methodology, 2, 1999, pp.291-296.
66. "The Many Faces of Philosophy of Biology." Review of Michael Ghiselin, Metaphysics and the
Origin of Species, and Anthony O'Hear, Beyond Evolution: Human Nature and the Limits of
Evolutionary Explanation, Studies in The History and Philosophy of the Biological and
Biomedical Sciences, forthcoming.
67. "Aristotle as the Antidote to the Cartesian Contagion". Review of Edward Pols, Mind Regained.
Contemporary Psychology, 45, 2000, pp.262-264.
68. Review of Tony Lawson, Economics and Reality. Feminist Economics, 1999, pp.121-126.
69. "Unification Not Proved," Review of Edward O Wilson, Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge.
Science 280, 29 May, 1998, p.1395.
70. Review of Norman Levitt, Prometheus Bedeviled, The Sciences, March/April 2000, pp. 40-45.
(Reply to correspondence, The Sciences, July/August 2000, pp. 3 and 5.)
Short Reviews
71. Review of Brian Loar, Mind and Meaning, Ethics, 1985. ("Booknotes.")
72. Review of John Yolton, Perceptual Acquaintance from Descartes to Reid. Ethics, 1985.
("Booknotes.")
73. Review of Alexander Rosenberg, The Structure of Biological Science. Philosophy of Science, 53,
1986, pp. 461-463.
74. Review of Daniel R. Brooks and E.O.Wiley, Evolution as Entropy. Isis, 81, 1990, pp149-150.
75. Review of David L. Hull, The Metaphysics of Evolution. Quarterly Review of Biology, 66, 1991,
p.191.
76. Review of Ellery Eells, Probabilistic Causality. Isis, 83, 1992, pp. 528-529.
77. Review of Philip Kitcher, The Advancement of Science. Philosophical Review, 104, 1995, pp.
147-151.
78. Review of Hilary Kornblith, Inductive Inference and Its Natural Ground. Teaching Philosophy,
17, 1994, pp. 368-370.
79. Review of Paul Feyerabend, Science in a Free Society. Stanford Magazine, June1994, pp.12-13.
80. Review of Elliott Sober, Philosophy of Biology. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45,
1994, 1084-1087.
81. Review of Alexander Rosenberg, Instrumental Biology , or The Disunity of Science. Canadian
Philosophical Reviews., 15, 1995, 283-285.
82. Review of Elliott Sober, From a Biological Point of View: Essays in Evolutionary Philosophy.
Philosophy of Science., 63, 1996, 143-145.
83. Review of Robert Brandon, Concepts and Methods in Evolutionary Biology. British Journal for
the Philosophy of Science, 48, 1997, 292-296.
84. Review of Ernst Mayr, This is Biology. Philosophy of Science, 66, 1999, 504-506.
85. Review of Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What? Journal of Philosophy, 97, 2000, 673676.