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EspañolSTEVE FULLER (SOCIAL EPISTEMOLOGIST)
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'Steve William Fuller' (born July 12, 1959 in New York City) is an Anglo-American philosopher-sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.
Fuller was admitted as a John Jay Scholar to Columbia University in 1976, from where he graduated ''summa cum laude'' in History and Sociology in 1979. He then studied at Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Kellet Fellowship, from which he received an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science in 1981. He then received a Ph. D. in the same subject from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985, where he was an Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow. Fuller's Ph.D. was entitled "Bounded Rationality in Law and Science," which explored the implications of the views of Herbert Simon for political theory and philosophy of science. Fuller subsequently held assistant and associate professorships at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Virginia Tech and, again, the University of Pittsburgh. In 1994, at the age of 35, he was appointed to the chair in sociology and social policy at the University of Durham in the UK, from which he moved in 1999 to his current post at the University of Warwick, UK. In July 2007 Fuller was awarded a higher doctorate (D. Litt.) by Warwick for recognition of 'published work or papers which demonstrate a high standard of important original work forming a major contribution to a subject'.[1]
Fuller is most closely associated with social epistemology as an interdisciplinary research program. Social epistemology is a normative discipline that addresses philosophical problems of knowledge using the tools of history and the social sciences. Fuller founded the first journal (1987) and wrote the first book (1988) devoted to this topic. The most obvious feature of Fuller's approach, already present in his 1988 book, is that he rejects out of hand the Cartesian problem of scepticism.
Fuller is a prolific author and speaker, having written more than 200 academic articles and given over 500 public talks across the world. His works have been translated into fifteen languages. He has been active in public understanding of science initiatives in the UK, where he moved in 1994. In 1995 he organized in Durham one of the first UK conferences on the Science Wars, which featured Lewis Wolpert, Peter Atkins and Andrew Pickering as invited speakers.
Since moving to the UK, Fuller has increasingly oriented himself towards public intellectual expression, including television and radio, which he interprets as a natual outgrowth of his version of social epistemology. Two of his books have been recognised in this regard. ''Kuhn vs Popper'' was Book of the Month for February 2005 in the US mass circulation magazine, ''Popular Science''. ''The Intellectual'' was selected as a Book of the Year in 2005 by the UK liberal-left magazine, ''New Statesman''. He periodically contributes a column to the Project Syndicate, associated with George Soros' Open Society project, which appears in several languages in newspapers across the world.[2] In 2006 he also taught a course on the 'epistemology of journalism' at an international summer school at the University of Lund, Sweden.[3]
Fuller has been one of the most visible supporters of the UK group, Academics for Academic Freedom[4]. He distinctively believes (modelled on what he takes to be the German model) that academic freedom refers to a freedom reserved for academics, not a special case of freedom of speech[5]. This includes the right to give offence as long as it is done within the terms of reason and evidence that is appropriate to the academic profession.[6]
Fuller has been criticised for his allegedly postmodernist views on science (Fuller's views can more accurately be characterised as the related viewpoint of social constructionism), as well as his support for 'Intelligent Design'.[7][8] Where this criticism has come from pro-Science blogs, it has largely centred on his testimony, for the defense, at the Kitzmiller trial.[9] This testimony was frequently quoted by Judge Jones, though not in a way helpful to the defense, as noted by critics of Intelligent Design.[10]. Critics within the Science and Technology Studies community have described Fuller's participation at this trial as "naive" and have suggested that the field needs further development before it can constructively engage the legal community on the nature of science.[11][12]
On 21 February 2007, Fuller debated Lewis Wolpert at Royal Holloway, University of London on whether evolution and intelligent design should be accorded equal status as scientific theories. Fuller supported the proposition.
Fuller has written a very complimentary "endorsement" of the pro-Intelligent Design Discovery Institute's textbook '' (published in 2007), which features on this book's website.[13]
★ ''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.
★ ''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: Evolution's 500-year War on Intelligent Design'', Icon Books, 2008
★ Two essays written as part of a debate on the Sokal hoax and published in The Independent on Sunday on 28 June 1998:
★
★ ''Who's Afriad of Science Studies'' by Steve Fuller, defending science studies.
★
★ ''an annotated bibliography of nonsense'' by Kenan Malik, takes a contrary view to Fuller's (but does not refer to him), criticising what he considers to be the unrealistically excessive relativism of science studies.
★ Special Issue of ''Social Epistemology'' (2003) on Fuller's Kuhn thesis.
★ Remedios, F. (2003). ''Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge: An Introduction to Steve Fuller’s Social Epistemology'', Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, USA.
★ Fuller, S. (2004). The Case of Fuller vs Kuhn, ''Social Epistemology'' '18', 3-49. (Fuller's response to the ''Social Epistemology'' Special Issue)
★ Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005):
★
★ Fuller expert report
★
★ Transcript Day 15 AM(Steve Fuller direct)
★
★ Transcript Day 15 PM(Steve Fuller cross, redirect & recross)
★ Lambert, K. (2006). Fuller’s Folly, Kuhnian Paradigms, and Intelligent Design, ''Social Studies of Science'' '36', 835-842.
★ Edmond, G. and Mercer, D. (2006). Anti-social Epistemologies, ''Social Studies of Science'' '36', 843-853.
★ Fuller’s Homepage (includes audio lectures)
★ Social Epistemology’s Homepage
★ Profile in ''The Guardian'', January 2006
★ Profile in the US Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2000
★ ''Steve Fuller and The Hidden Agenda of Social Constructivism'', Norman Levitt, TalkReason essay
★ Steve Fuller lecture at ThinkTank Science Museum in Birmingham UK discussing the Dover, PA Intelligent Design Trial
★ Hostile discussion of Fuller's contribution to the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial
★ Transcript and audio recording of the debate between Fuller and Wolpert.
'Steve William Fuller' (born July 12, 1959 in New York City) is an Anglo-American philosopher-sociologist in the field of science and technology studies.
| Contents |
| Biography |
| Research |
| Public Intellectual Work |
| Academic Freedom |
| Controversy surrounding support of Intelligent Design |
| Bibliography |
| See also |
| External links |
Biography
Fuller was admitted as a John Jay Scholar to Columbia University in 1976, from where he graduated ''summa cum laude'' in History and Sociology in 1979. He then studied at Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Kellet Fellowship, from which he received an M.Phil. in History and Philosophy of Science in 1981. He then received a Ph. D. in the same subject from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985, where he was an Andrew Mellon Pre-Doctoral Fellow. Fuller's Ph.D. was entitled "Bounded Rationality in Law and Science," which explored the implications of the views of Herbert Simon for political theory and philosophy of science. Fuller subsequently held assistant and associate professorships at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Virginia Tech and, again, the University of Pittsburgh. In 1994, at the age of 35, he was appointed to the chair in sociology and social policy at the University of Durham in the UK, from which he moved in 1999 to his current post at the University of Warwick, UK. In July 2007 Fuller was awarded a higher doctorate (D. Litt.) by Warwick for recognition of 'published work or papers which demonstrate a high standard of important original work forming a major contribution to a subject'.[1]
Research
Fuller is most closely associated with social epistemology as an interdisciplinary research program. Social epistemology is a normative discipline that addresses philosophical problems of knowledge using the tools of history and the social sciences. Fuller founded the first journal (1987) and wrote the first book (1988) devoted to this topic. The most obvious feature of Fuller's approach, already present in his 1988 book, is that he rejects out of hand the Cartesian problem of scepticism.
Fuller is a prolific author and speaker, having written more than 200 academic articles and given over 500 public talks across the world. His works have been translated into fifteen languages. He has been active in public understanding of science initiatives in the UK, where he moved in 1994. In 1995 he organized in Durham one of the first UK conferences on the Science Wars, which featured Lewis Wolpert, Peter Atkins and Andrew Pickering as invited speakers.
Public Intellectual Work
Since moving to the UK, Fuller has increasingly oriented himself towards public intellectual expression, including television and radio, which he interprets as a natual outgrowth of his version of social epistemology. Two of his books have been recognised in this regard. ''Kuhn vs Popper'' was Book of the Month for February 2005 in the US mass circulation magazine, ''Popular Science''. ''The Intellectual'' was selected as a Book of the Year in 2005 by the UK liberal-left magazine, ''New Statesman''. He periodically contributes a column to the Project Syndicate, associated with George Soros' Open Society project, which appears in several languages in newspapers across the world.[2] In 2006 he also taught a course on the 'epistemology of journalism' at an international summer school at the University of Lund, Sweden.[3]
Academic Freedom
Fuller has been one of the most visible supporters of the UK group, Academics for Academic Freedom[4]. He distinctively believes (modelled on what he takes to be the German model) that academic freedom refers to a freedom reserved for academics, not a special case of freedom of speech[5]. This includes the right to give offence as long as it is done within the terms of reason and evidence that is appropriate to the academic profession.[6]
Controversy surrounding support of Intelligent Design
Fuller has been criticised for his allegedly postmodernist views on science (Fuller's views can more accurately be characterised as the related viewpoint of social constructionism), as well as his support for 'Intelligent Design'.[7][8] Where this criticism has come from pro-Science blogs, it has largely centred on his testimony, for the defense, at the Kitzmiller trial.[9] This testimony was frequently quoted by Judge Jones, though not in a way helpful to the defense, as noted by critics of Intelligent Design.[10]. Critics within the Science and Technology Studies community have described Fuller's participation at this trial as "naive" and have suggested that the field needs further development before it can constructively engage the legal community on the nature of science.[11][12]
On 21 February 2007, Fuller debated Lewis Wolpert at Royal Holloway, University of London on whether evolution and intelligent design should be accorded equal status as scientific theories. Fuller supported the proposition.
Fuller has written a very complimentary "endorsement" of the pro-Intelligent Design Discovery Institute's textbook '' (published in 2007), which features on this book's website.[13]
Bibliography
★ ''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.
★ ''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: Evolution's 500-year War on Intelligent Design'', Icon Books, 2008
See also
★ Two essays written as part of a debate on the Sokal hoax and published in The Independent on Sunday on 28 June 1998:
★
★ ''Who's Afriad of Science Studies'' by Steve Fuller, defending science studies.
★
★ ''an annotated bibliography of nonsense'' by Kenan Malik, takes a contrary view to Fuller's (but does not refer to him), criticising what he considers to be the unrealistically excessive relativism of science studies.
★ Special Issue of ''Social Epistemology'' (2003) on Fuller's Kuhn thesis.
★ Remedios, F. (2003). ''Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge: An Introduction to Steve Fuller’s Social Epistemology'', Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, USA.
★ Fuller, S. (2004). The Case of Fuller vs Kuhn, ''Social Epistemology'' '18', 3-49. (Fuller's response to the ''Social Epistemology'' Special Issue)
★ Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District (2005):
★
★ Fuller expert report
★
★ Transcript Day 15 AM(Steve Fuller direct)
★
★ Transcript Day 15 PM(Steve Fuller cross, redirect & recross)
★ Lambert, K. (2006). Fuller’s Folly, Kuhnian Paradigms, and Intelligent Design, ''Social Studies of Science'' '36', 835-842.
★ Edmond, G. and Mercer, D. (2006). Anti-social Epistemologies, ''Social Studies of Science'' '36', 843-853.
External links
★ Fuller’s Homepage (includes audio lectures)
★ Social Epistemology’s Homepage
★ Profile in ''The Guardian'', January 2006
★ Profile in the US Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2000
★ ''Steve Fuller and The Hidden Agenda of Social Constructivism'', Norman Levitt, TalkReason essay
★ Steve Fuller lecture at ThinkTank Science Museum in Birmingham UK discussing the Dover, PA Intelligent Design Trial
★ Hostile discussion of Fuller's contribution to the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial
★ Transcript and audio recording of the debate between Fuller and Wolpert.
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