Steve Fuller is Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He is co-author, with Veronika Lipinska, of The Proactionary Imperative.
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Commentaries by Steve Fuller
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The Future of Ideological Conflict
WARWICK – The just-concluded French presidential election seemed to suggest that the old left-right divisions are as potent as they have eve…
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Is Academic Freedom Worth Its Price?
WARWICK, UK – Is academic freedom affordable in a time of economic crisis? That was the topic for discussion at the annual signing of the Ma…
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Who Needs the Humanities?
WARWICK, UK – Nowadays, in country after country, policymakers have become obsessed with the need to strengthen science education. But what …
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Our Virtual Middle Ages
Wikipedia , the online encyclopedia, is the most impressive collective intellectual project ever attempted – and perhaps achieved. It demand…
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The Conundrum of Scientific Fraud
Science, and the behavior of scientists, has never been perfect. Consider the Korean scientist Hwang Woo-suk, whose claim to have extracted …
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The Vanished Intellectual
This spring marks the centenary of the birth of two all-round intellectuals, those ideological avatars of the Cold War era, Raymond Aron and…
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Who Needs the Social Sciences?
Why are the social sciences so much more at risk of having their budgets cut than the other two great bodies of academic knowledge, the huma…
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Kentucky Fried University?
Academics are easily flattered by talk about "knowledge management" and the "knowledge society." They often think this phrase highlights the…
The Future of Ideological Conflict
Michael Griffin: The new division makes sense, but I'm not sure how predominant it will actually be--will traditionalists really value their mutual suspicions more than their dislike of hippie communalists? Will a mut…
The Future of Ideological Conflict
Tom Slocombe: I do not think that what we saw in the recent French presidential election was reflective of a traditional left-right battle; what was most evident in the Sarkozy/Hollande debate was an attempt to win…