Steve Fuller

Biographic Data

ID3617699
NAMESteve Fuller
GIVEN NAMESSteve
FAMILY NAMEFuller
SIGNATUREFULLER S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Warwick
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS178
TOTAL CITATIONS327
AUTHOR COUNT176
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1983
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX10

  • Analytic Philosophy’s Discovery of What It Can Be

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences2026References: 10

    Christoph Schuringa’s Social History of Analytic Philosophy is a lesser but worthy sequel to Gyorgy Lukacs’s comprehensive ideology critique of twentieth century philosophy in The Destruction of Reason . Like Lukacs, Schuringa identifies analytic philosophy’s weak critical sensibility with its bourgeois liberalism, which impedes its ability to address adequately class, gender, and race discrimination. Schuringa is most interesting when he turns t…

  • Smart Transcendentalism or Trained Incapacity? Response to Little

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences2026References: 8

    This is a response to Daniel Little’s review of my recent book, To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation . While Little’s recognizes that the book’s contents reflect my academic formation, he is disappointed that it does not conform to a certain view of the sociology of knowledge. In response, I accuse him of “trained incapacity” as a reader and proceed to elaborate what I call in the book “smart transcendentalism,” which orient…

  • Is the path from aphorism to tweet the royal road to knowledge

    Fuller, Steve FullerARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2025References: 2

  • To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation

    Open AccessSteve FullerBOOKTo Judge and To Justify2024

  • Exercising Judgement in a Reality with Many Worlds: Analytic and Continental Stylings

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerCHAPTERTo Judge and To Justify2024

    Thomas Kuhn’s philosophy of science presupposes a version of ‘many worlds realism’, which has impeded its ability to judge and justify the history of science. Moreover, such incapacity has the downstream effect of rendering the meaning of being human indeterminate in ways that make thinking and acting towards the future difficult. The chapter opens by observing the shifting philosophical developments in the 1950s–1970s, when Kuhn’s views gestated…

  • Catastrophe’s Justice: A Review of Bryan S. Turner, A Theory of Catastrophe

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEInternational Journal of Politics…2024

  • Classroom as Crucible in the Humboldtian University: Reply to Collin

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences2024References: 4

    This reply to Finn Collin’s critically sympathetic review of my Back to the University’s Future: The Second Coming of Humboldt, addresses some of the tensions involved in realizing “Humboldt 2.0” in today’s higher education environment. Its focus is largely on the academic’s sense of researcher as being one of learner. In other words, the Humboldtian sees research as the necessary complement to teaching, not something radically distinct from it

  • Neuromatic; or, A Particular History of Religion and the Brain

    Fuller, Steve FullerARTICLEIsis2024

  • The Epistemological Compass and the (Post)Truth about Objectivity

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLESocial Epistemology2023

    Massimo Dell’Utri proposes the idea of an ‘epistemological compass’, which he alleges provides a common intuitive sense of objectivity, the existence of which defenders of ‘post-truth’ positions would perversely try to deny. I argue that Dell’Utri’s choice of a compass – metaphorical or otherwise – is unfortunate because it is a device that presupposes that what appears plain to the senses is directed by hidden forces emanating from distant sourc…

  • The Fact of the Matter About the Post-Truth Condition: Response to Sassower

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences2023References: 5

    This article responds to Raphael Sassower’s critique of my recent A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition. It addresses his concerns that I do not align myself sufficiently with Foucault and Critical Theory more generally. The article points out that notwithstanding my indebtedness to these sources, one cannot properly understand the post-truth condition without taking seriously the robust sense of freedom that today’s two dominant ideologie…

  • AI and the future of humanity: ChatGPT-4, philosophy and education – Critical responses

    Michael A Peters, L Jackson et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2023Cited by: 21References: 4

    Notes15 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2022.208555416 https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-chatbots-naive-idiots-no-sense-of-irony-by-slavoj-zizek-2023-0317 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinion/noam-chomsky-chatgpt-ai.html

  • Shaken Not Stirred: The Name of the Game in the Post-Truth Condition

    Fuller, Steve FullerARTICLECritical Review2023Cited by: 1References: 10

    The post-truth condition is just as much about naming a meta-game as winning it. This condition can be tracked across Western intellectual history from the Homeric epics to popular culture. The common thread is that players are more likely to succeed in this meta-game if they have a certain consistency of character, which Thomas More called “integrity.” The presence of integrity means that the historical losers have often had an advantage in defi…

  • Rorty Reframed

    Fuller, Steve FullerARTICLECommon Knowledge2023References: 17

    Richard Rorty is easily cast as the intellectual godfather of our post-truth condition. But unlike Nicholas Gaskill, whose article in Common Knowledge 28, no. 3, has engendered a continuing symposium in the journal, Professor Fuller sees Rorty's role as being to his credit rather than detriment. Rorty extended W. B. Gallie's idea of "essentially contested concepts" from the moral and political spheres to the epistemic, thereby rendering such term…

  • Symmetry in World-Historic Perspective: Reply to Lynch

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2022References: 5

    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 incl…

  • The Social Epistemology of Scientific Dissent: Responding to William Lynch’s Minority Report

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences2022References: 3

    William Lynch’s Minority Report is the most comprehensive and fair-minded attempt to give epistemic dissent its due in science that has appeared in recent times. Nevertheless, it remains too beholden to the scientific establishment as its epistemic benchmark. The sophistication of Lynch’s argument lies in the trading of counterfactual intuitions about whether suppressed dissenters would scientifically flourish even given an appropriate level of e…

  • After Brexit and Aukus’: Twitter-inspired collective writing on geopolitics of an emerging multipolar world

    Michael A Peters, Alexander J Means et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2022

  • Cultural Apocalypse, Western colonial domination and ‘ the end of the world’

    Michael A Peters, Chengbing Wang et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2022Cited by: 1References: 2

  • Twitter and the aphoristic (re)turn in thought, knowledge and education

    Fuller, Steve Fuller et al.ARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2022References: 4

    The article focuses on the resurgence of aphoristic expression, particularly in relation to Twitter, examining its impact on thought, knowledge, and education. Topics include the definition and ambiguity surrounding aphorisms, their role in philosophy across different cultures, and defense of Twitter as a medium for intellectual discourse, connecting historical and modern examples of aphoristic styles from Wittgenstein to contemporary criticisms …

  • Eurasianism as the deep history of Russia’s discontent

    Fuller, Steve FullerARTICLEEducational Philosophy and Theory2022Cited by: 3

  • Democracy Naturalized: In Search of the Individual in the Post-truth Condition

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEAnalyse & Kritik2021References: 17

    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 mar…

  • Permanent Revolution In Science: A Quantum Epistemology

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerARTICLEPhilosophy of the Social Sciences2021Cited by: 1References: 9

    This article is the preface to the Russian translation of my Kuhn vs Popper. I use it as an opportunity to re-examine the difference between Kuhn and Popper on the nature of ‘revolutions’ in science. Kuhn is rightly seen as a ‘reluctant revolutionary’ and Popper a ‘permanent revolutionary’. In this respect, Kuhn sticks to the original medieval meaning of ‘revolution’ as restoration of a natural order, whereas Popper adopts the more modern meaning…

  • Weber as a Swimmer in the Currents of his Time: An Object Lesson in how not to get Washed Away by the Tide

    Fuller, Steve FullerARTICLEMax Weber Studies2020Cited by: 1

  • Academia as Cargo Cult

    Open AccessFuller, Steve FullerCHAPTERThe Impact of Critical Rationalism2019

  • Nietzschean Meditations - Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era

    Fuller, Steve FullerBOOKNietzschean Meditations -…2019

    Nietzschean Meditations takes its inspiration from the version of Nietzsche that was popular before the Second World War, which stressed the ‘Zarathustrian’ elements of his thought as the harbinger of a new sort of being – the Übermensch. The book updates the image of this creature to present a version of ‘transhumanism’ that breaks with the more precautionary and pessimistic approaches of humanity’s future in contemporary ‘posthumanist’ thought.…

  • A debate between Steve Fuller and Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti on ‘scientific progress, human progress and Christian theology’

    Open AccessFuller, Steve Fuller et al.ARTICLEChurch, Communication and Culture2019

    This piece is the first of new annual feature of the journal, entitled ‘Debate’. Two scholars offer their contrasting reflections on a topic of interest – this year, it is ‘scientific progress, human progress and Christian theology’. The debate is opened by American sociologist Steve Fuller, who briefly presents his thesis on the subject, proposing in the end the Church to be more open to an ‘adventurous approach to nature’ in his opinion more co…