Steve Fuller – Wikipedia

Steve William Fuller (* July 12, 1959 in New York) is an American sociologist. He is considered the founder of a so -called “social epistemology” (social epistemology). In addition to the limits of science, it became known primarily through his position to intelligent design – Fuller represents a scientific right to exist of this theory.

Fuller visited a Jesuit college in Manhattan with the help of 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 doctorate at 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 as a full professor of sociology and social policy to the University of Durham in England. Fuller has held a chair 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.

Fuller appears in Ben Stein Expelled’s documentary: No Intelligence Allowed and makes 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 only natural processes. Then you become more liberal towards the topics of abortion and euthanasia. All of these types of ideas seem to me The natural consequence of being from a Darwinistic perspective – basically a deprivilege of man. And I believe that the people who support Darwinism have to take this thought very seriously “.

• 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