... New York: Cambridge University Press. Mirowski, Philip and Sent, Esther-Mirjam, eds (forthcom... more ... New York: Cambridge University Press. Mirowski, Philip and Sent, Esther-Mirjam, eds (forthcoming) Science Bought and Sold. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ... A FULLER VISION OF THOMAS KUHN: RESPONSE TO ROTH AND MIROWSKI ...
Beyond the science wars: The missing discourse …, 2000
CHAPTER 9 Science Studies through the Looking Glass An Intellectual Itinerary STEVE FULLER EDITOR... more CHAPTER 9 Science Studies through the Looking Glass An Intellectual Itinerary STEVE FULLER EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION The problem now is to reestablish working relations between scientists, those who study science and scientists, and the general public. In the final ...
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
The regional accrediting associations and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL... more The regional accrediting associations and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have developed standards to evaluate the performance of academic libraries. This brief historical sketch provides a summary of regional accreditation standards and the ACRL ...
These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in rel... more These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in relation to the aphorism in philosophy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.2109461
Research in Science and Technology Studies (STS) tends to presume that intellectual and political... more Research in Science and Technology Studies (STS) tends to presume that intellectual and political radicalism go hand in hand. One would therefore expect that the most intellectually radical movement in the field relates critically to its social conditions. However, this is not the case, as demonstrated by the trajectory of the Parisian School of STS spearheaded by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour. Their position, “actor-network theory,” turns out to be little more than a strategic adaptation to the democratization of expertise and the decline of the strong nation-state in France over the past 25 years. This article provides a prehistory of this client-driven, contract-based research culture in U.S. sociology of the 1960s, followed by specific features of French philosophical and political culture that have bred the distinctive tenets of actor-network theory. Insofar as actor-network theory has become the main paradigm for contemporary STS research, it reflects a field that dodges norm...
Steve Fuller’s Knowledge is on the interplay of scientific knowledge and the human condition. Oth... more Steve Fuller’s Knowledge is on the interplay of scientific knowledge and the human condition. Other than Fuller’s work, there is little discussion in the current literature in sociology of scientific knowledge, science and technology studies, sociology of science, philosophy of science, epistemology of science and analytic social epistemology on this interplay. The book provides provocative and controversial views on social epistemology of scientific knowledge in the history of epistemology which is construed widely as forms of knowledge in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The breadth of Fuller’s book is very wide. The book has six chapters with each chapter on a different version of epistemology and its history. Chapter 1 is on cognitive economics, and Chapter 2 is on divine psychology. Chapters 3–5 are extended discussions of the application of divine psychology to psychology of science, philosophy of science and sociology of science, respectively. Chapter 6 is on counterfactual historiography. This review
... As I see it, the most problematic feature of my assumption is one that Radder does not stress... more ... As I see it, the most problematic feature of my assumption is one that Radder does not stress, namely, that there is a ... Notwithstanding this proviso, thinkers as diverse as Charles Sanders Peirce, Karl Popper, and Donald Campbell have defended this model of the scientific polity ...
What has atheism ever done for science? After all, it is one thing to admit that religious dogmat... more What has atheism ever done for science? After all, it is one thing to admit that religious dogmatism has periodically halted the march of scientific progress, but it's quite another to argue that atheism has actually advanced science. If atheism is to go beyond the mere denial of certain religious authorities, then it must be something more than a position that retains all the key metaphysical assumptions of monotheismincluding the eschatology, soteriology, and theodicyand sometimes even its institutions, as in Comte's post-Catholic positivist religion. Atheism as a freestanding worldview has always had difficulty in justifying the pursuit of science, understood as a long-term intergenerational project that aspires to a comprehensive understanding of all of reality, in relation to which 'progress' can be measured. Even if most scientists nowadays call themselves 'Atheists,' or even 'New Atheists,' Atheism as a positive doctrine has done precious little for science. Keywords: atheism; monotheism; positive doctrine; science
These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in rel... more These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in relation to the aphorism in philosophy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.2109461
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
This chapter considers the history of the human sciences as propaedeutic to humanity’s future sel... more This chapter considers the history of the human sciences as propaedeutic to humanity’s future self-understanding. Immanuel Kant is pivotal in this context, not merely as someone whose views about the human have been influential, but more importantly as someone who deeply problematized what it means to be “human” in ways that remain relevant. In particular, Kant updated his understanding of the Judaeo-Christian and Greco-Roman traditions to project an indefinitely extendable vision of humanity, which is captured by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism. So, how would Kant define humanity today? The chapter explores the question largely by drawing on Kant’s fertile appeal in his later “critical” writings to the distinction between the “Stoic” and “Epicurean” worldview, both of which acknowledge the centrality of chance to the cosmos, with the Stoic adopting the more hopeful and even risk-embracing approach to such existential uncertainty. The overall import of Kant’s Stoic cosmopolitanism is to undermine the intuitiveness of the “sentimentalism” associated with the animal-based conceptions of humanity favoured by the Epicurean approach. In this respect, Kant opens the door to what transhumanists call a “morphologically free” conception of humanity that is in principle open to membership by both extraterrestrials – a prospect Kant himself entertained – and artificially intelligent machines, a move with significant implications for what the history of the human sciences has been about and might be in the future.
William Lynch has persistently questioned the politics underlying my appeal to science and techno... more William Lynch has persistently questioned the politics underlying my appeal to science and technology studies’ flagship symmetry principle. He believes that it licenses the worst features of the ‘post-truth condition’. I respond in two parts, the first facing the future and the second facing the past. In the first part, I argue that the symmetry principle will be crucial in decisions that society will increasingly need to make concerning the inclusion of animals and machines on grounds of sentience, consciousness, intelligence, etc. In the second part, I argue that the symmetry principle has been in fact at the core of the ‘justice as fairness’ idea that has been at the core of both liberal and socialist democracies. Difficulties start once the means of expression and communication are made widely available and the standards of fairness are subject to continual questioning and renegotiation.
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific ... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. 1
This article takes a ‘naturalistic’ look at the historically changing nature of the individual an... more This article takes a ‘naturalistic’ look at the historically changing nature of the individual and its implications for the terms on which democracy might be realized, starting from classical Athens, moving through early debates in evolutionary theory, to contemporary moral and political thought. Generally speaking, liberal democracy sees individuality as the mark of an evolutionarily mature species, whereas socialist democracy sees it as the mark of an evolutionary immature species. Overall, the individual has been ‘de-naturalized’ over time, resulting in the indeterminate figure who thrives in the post-truth condition.
... New York: Cambridge University Press. Mirowski, Philip and Sent, Esther-Mirjam, eds (forthcom... more ... New York: Cambridge University Press. Mirowski, Philip and Sent, Esther-Mirjam, eds (forthcoming) Science Bought and Sold. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. ... A FULLER VISION OF THOMAS KUHN: RESPONSE TO ROTH AND MIROWSKI ...
Beyond the science wars: The missing discourse …, 2000
CHAPTER 9 Science Studies through the Looking Glass An Intellectual Itinerary STEVE FULLER EDITOR... more CHAPTER 9 Science Studies through the Looking Glass An Intellectual Itinerary STEVE FULLER EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION The problem now is to reestablish working relations between scientists, those who study science and scientists, and the general public. In the final ...
Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1984
The regional accrediting associations and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL... more The regional accrediting associations and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) have developed standards to evaluate the performance of academic libraries. This brief historical sketch provides a summary of regional accreditation standards and the ACRL ...
These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in rel... more These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in relation to the aphorism in philosophy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.2109461
Research in Science and Technology Studies (STS) tends to presume that intellectual and political... more Research in Science and Technology Studies (STS) tends to presume that intellectual and political radicalism go hand in hand. One would therefore expect that the most intellectually radical movement in the field relates critically to its social conditions. However, this is not the case, as demonstrated by the trajectory of the Parisian School of STS spearheaded by Michel Callon and Bruno Latour. Their position, “actor-network theory,” turns out to be little more than a strategic adaptation to the democratization of expertise and the decline of the strong nation-state in France over the past 25 years. This article provides a prehistory of this client-driven, contract-based research culture in U.S. sociology of the 1960s, followed by specific features of French philosophical and political culture that have bred the distinctive tenets of actor-network theory. Insofar as actor-network theory has become the main paradigm for contemporary STS research, it reflects a field that dodges norm...
Steve Fuller’s Knowledge is on the interplay of scientific knowledge and the human condition. Oth... more Steve Fuller’s Knowledge is on the interplay of scientific knowledge and the human condition. Other than Fuller’s work, there is little discussion in the current literature in sociology of scientific knowledge, science and technology studies, sociology of science, philosophy of science, epistemology of science and analytic social epistemology on this interplay. The book provides provocative and controversial views on social epistemology of scientific knowledge in the history of epistemology which is construed widely as forms of knowledge in the humanities, social sciences and natural sciences. The breadth of Fuller’s book is very wide. The book has six chapters with each chapter on a different version of epistemology and its history. Chapter 1 is on cognitive economics, and Chapter 2 is on divine psychology. Chapters 3–5 are extended discussions of the application of divine psychology to psychology of science, philosophy of science and sociology of science, respectively. Chapter 6 is on counterfactual historiography. This review
... As I see it, the most problematic feature of my assumption is one that Radder does not stress... more ... As I see it, the most problematic feature of my assumption is one that Radder does not stress, namely, that there is a ... Notwithstanding this proviso, thinkers as diverse as Charles Sanders Peirce, Karl Popper, and Donald Campbell have defended this model of the scientific polity ...
What has atheism ever done for science? After all, it is one thing to admit that religious dogmat... more What has atheism ever done for science? After all, it is one thing to admit that religious dogmatism has periodically halted the march of scientific progress, but it's quite another to argue that atheism has actually advanced science. If atheism is to go beyond the mere denial of certain religious authorities, then it must be something more than a position that retains all the key metaphysical assumptions of monotheismincluding the eschatology, soteriology, and theodicyand sometimes even its institutions, as in Comte's post-Catholic positivist religion. Atheism as a freestanding worldview has always had difficulty in justifying the pursuit of science, understood as a long-term intergenerational project that aspires to a comprehensive understanding of all of reality, in relation to which 'progress' can be measured. Even if most scientists nowadays call themselves 'Atheists,' or even 'New Atheists,' Atheism as a positive doctrine has done precious little for science. Keywords: atheism; monotheism; positive doctrine; science
These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in rel... more These are six responses plus my reply to my original guest editorial that examined Twitter in relation to the aphorism in philosophy: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.2109461
The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Human Sciences
This chapter considers the history of the human sciences as propaedeutic to humanity’s future sel... more This chapter considers the history of the human sciences as propaedeutic to humanity’s future self-understanding. Immanuel Kant is pivotal in this context, not merely as someone whose views about the human have been influential, but more importantly as someone who deeply problematized what it means to be “human” in ways that remain relevant. In particular, Kant updated his understanding of the Judaeo-Christian and Greco-Roman traditions to project an indefinitely extendable vision of humanity, which is captured by the Stoic idea of cosmopolitanism. So, how would Kant define humanity today? The chapter explores the question largely by drawing on Kant’s fertile appeal in his later “critical” writings to the distinction between the “Stoic” and “Epicurean” worldview, both of which acknowledge the centrality of chance to the cosmos, with the Stoic adopting the more hopeful and even risk-embracing approach to such existential uncertainty. The overall import of Kant’s Stoic cosmopolitanism is to undermine the intuitiveness of the “sentimentalism” associated with the animal-based conceptions of humanity favoured by the Epicurean approach. In this respect, Kant opens the door to what transhumanists call a “morphologically free” conception of humanity that is in principle open to membership by both extraterrestrials – a prospect Kant himself entertained – and artificially intelligent machines, a move with significant implications for what the history of the human sciences has been about and might be in the future.
William Lynch has persistently questioned the politics underlying my appeal to science and techno... more William Lynch has persistently questioned the politics underlying my appeal to science and technology studies’ flagship symmetry principle. He believes that it licenses the worst features of the ‘post-truth condition’. I respond in two parts, the first facing the future and the second facing the past. In the first part, I argue that the symmetry principle will be crucial in decisions that society will increasingly need to make concerning the inclusion of animals and machines on grounds of sentience, consciousness, intelligence, etc. In the second part, I argue that the symmetry principle has been in fact at the core of the ‘justice as fairness’ idea that has been at the core of both liberal and socialist democracies. Difficulties start once the means of expression and communication are made widely available and the standards of fairness are subject to continual questioning and renegotiation.
HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific ... more HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci-entific research documents, whether they are pub-lished or not. The documents may come from teaching and research institutions in France or abroad, or from public or private research centers. L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est destinée au dépôt et a ̀ la diffusion de documents scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires publics ou privés. 1
This article takes a ‘naturalistic’ look at the historically changing nature of the individual an... more This article takes a ‘naturalistic’ look at the historically changing nature of the individual and its implications for the terms on which democracy might be realized, starting from classical Athens, moving through early debates in evolutionary theory, to contemporary moral and political thought. Generally speaking, liberal democracy sees individuality as the mark of an evolutionarily mature species, whereas socialist democracy sees it as the mark of an evolutionary immature species. Overall, the individual has been ‘de-naturalized’ over time, resulting in the indeterminate figure who thrives in the post-truth condition.
The volume Crossing the Border of Humanity: Cyborgs in Ethics, Law, and Art features contribution... more The volume Crossing the Border of Humanity: Cyborgs in Ethics, Law, and Art features contributions that explore various aspects of cyborgs in philosophical, bioethical, and legal discourses as well as in artistic projects. The goal of this volume is to offer a place for a passionate interdisciplinary debate on the dimensions of the cyborg and the process of cyborgization that we are witnessing in the 21st century. By presenting this volume to readers, we aim to blur the borders between human (mind and flesh) and machine, as well as to cross the boundaries of various disciplines (professions) and passions (e.g., hobbies) of art, science, technology, law, and humanities. By pointing out its multidimensional character, we wish to provide a forum for mutual inspirations.
This eBook has been produced by the Freud Museum London to explore our collective capacity for lo... more This eBook has been produced by the Freud Museum London to explore our collective capacity for love. It is part of a series of events on the theme of Freud and Love. Freud & Eros: Love, Lust and Longing is a new exhibition at the Freud Museum London, running from 22 October 2014 – 8 March 2015. The exhibition looks at Sigmund Freud's revolutionary ideas on love and the libidinal drive through Freud's own art collection and his passionate courtship of his wife Martha Bernays.
The exhibition is accompanied by an exciting programme of talks, performance, classes and events, including this ebook, event and conference. From January 2015 we will be asking you what you know about love - from how to get on with your family to how to turn your office into a love grotto. You are cordially invited to join us on this journey which we are calling #LoveAmateurs on @survivingwk and www.survivingwork.org.
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The exhibition is accompanied by an exciting programme of talks, performance, classes and events, including this ebook, event and conference. From January 2015 we will be asking you what you know about love - from how to get on with your family to how to turn your office into a love grotto. You are cordially invited to join us on this journey which we are calling #LoveAmateurs on @survivingwk and www.survivingwork.org.