Steve Fuller

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Steve Fuller

Steve William Fuller (born July 12, 1959 in New York ) is an American sociologist. He is considered the founder of a so-called "social epistemology". He became known beyond the boundaries of science primarily for his position on intelligent design - Fuller advocates a scientific right to exist for this theory.

Life

Fuller attended a Jesuit college in Manhattan on a scholarship. From 1976 he studied at Columbia University and Cambridge . His subjects were history , philosophy and sociology of knowledge . In 1985, Fuller received his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh on the subject: " Limited Rationality in Law and Science". Fuller taught and researched at the University of Colorado at Boulder , Virginia Tech and the University of Pittsburgh. In 1994 he was appointed Full Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham in England. Fuller has held a professorship at the University of Warwick since 1999 . He is a regular guest lecturer at various universities, in Germany for example at the Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen, and has published 21 books and numerous magazine articles.

Movie

Fuller appears in Ben Stein's documentary Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed and utters the following: If you take seriously that evolution has to do with the transition of life forms, and that life and death are just natural processes, then one gets to be liberal about abortion and euthanasia. All of those kinds of ideas seem to me follow very naturally from a Darwinian perspective - a deprivileging of human beings, basically. And I think people who want to endorse Darwinism have to take this kind of viewpoint very seriously. "If you take the theory of evolution seriously, namely that it has to do with the transition of life forms. Then life and death are just natural processes. Then you become more liberal on the issues of abortion and euthanasia . All these kinds of ideas seem to me being the natural consequence from a Darwinian perspective - basically a deprivileged person. And I think the people who support Darwinism need to take this idea very seriously ".

Works

  • Social Epistemology , Indiana University Press, 1988 (2nd edition, 2002).
  • Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents , Westview Press, 1989 (2nd edition, Guilford Press, 1993).
  • Philosophy, Rhetoric, and the End of Knowledge , University of Wisconsin Press, 1993 (2nd edition, with James H. Collier, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004)
  • Science , Open University Press (UK) and University of Minnesota Press (US), 1997.
  • The Governance of Science, Open University Press, 2000.
  • Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times , University of Chicago Press, 2000.
  • Knowledge Management Foundations , Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002. ISBN 0-7506-7365-6
  • Kuhn vs. Popper : The Struggle for the Soul of Science , Icon Books (UK) and Columbia University Press (US), 2003.
  • The Intellectual , Icon Books, 2005.
  • The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies , Routledge, 2006
  • The New Sociological Imagination , Sage, 2006.
  • The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture , Acumen (UK) and McGill-Queens University Press (NA), 2007
  • New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies , Polity, 2007
  • Science vs. Religion? Intelligent Design and the Problem of Evolution , Polity, 2007
  • Dissent Over Descent: Intelligent Design's Challenge to Darwinism , Icon Books, 2008
  • The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Career of the Mind In and Around the Academy , Sage, 2009 .
  • Science , (The Art of Living Series, Ed. Mark Vernon) Acumen, 2010
  • Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present and Future , Palgrave Macmillan 2011
  • Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0 , Palgrave Macmillan 2012
  • The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism (with Veronika Lipinska), Palgrave Macmillan 2014
  • Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History , Routledge 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Fuller, Steve
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fuller, Steve William (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sociologist and founder of social epistemology
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH new York