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Steve Fuller
Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is the author of The Knowledge Book: Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture.
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Is Academic Freedom Worth Its Price?
Steve Fuller Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2010-06-28In these hard economic times, when ordinary people are struggling to make ends meet, there is a nagging sense that universities are luxuries. In fact, universities may be the most consistently high-performing products of long-term capital investment.... read Comments: 1 Recommended: 1 Read: 17307
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Who Needs the Humanities?
Steve Fuller Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2008-06-27Nowadays, in country after country, policymakers have become obsessed with the need to strengthen science education. But without the humanities, the primate Homo sapiens would never have been transformed into a creature whose interests, aspirations, and achievements extend beyond successful sexual reproduction.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 1 Read: 25146
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Our Virtual Middle Ages
Steve Fuller Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2007-07-30Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, is the most impressive collective intellectual project ever attempted – and perhaps achieved. But its true significance may lie in its revival of the medieval process of knowledge creation, which featured portable "handbooks" that were overwritten by successive users.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 21105
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The Conundrum of Scientific Fraud
Steve Fuller Series: Science and Society 2006-03-24Science, and the behavior of scientists, has never been perfect. Consider the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, whose claim to have extracted stem cells from human embryos that he cloned turned out to be based on phony research. Hwang has just been fired by Seoul National University, and six of his co-workers have been suspended or had their pay cut.... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 29420
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The Vanished Intellectual
Steve Fuller Series: The Worldly Philosophers 2005-02-21This spring marks the centenary of the birth of two all-round intellectuals, those ideological avatars of the Cold War era, Raymond Aron and Jean-Paul Sartre. Aron was born on March 14, 1905, Sartre on June 21. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 52116
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Who Needs the Social Sciences?
Steve Fuller Series: Science and Society 2004-02-16Why are the social sciences so much more at risk of having their budgets cut than the other two great bodies of academic knowledge, the humanities and the natural sciences? Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher notoriously proposed that the field simply does not exist: there is no such thing as society, she claimed. Others point to the restructuring of university social science departments. But the expansion of business schools arguably testifies to the continued vitality of the social sciences. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 22880
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Kentucky Fried University?
Steve Fuller Series: Science and Society 2003-02-05Academics are easily flattered by talk about "knowledge management" and the "knowledge society." They often think this phrase highlights the central role of universities in society. In fact, it signals the opposite--that the wider society itself is a hotbed of knowledge production, over which universities do not enjoy any special privilege or advantage. ... read Comments: 0 Recommended: 0 Read: 20423
