Knowing Humanity in the Social World

The Path of Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology

Francis X Remedios, Val Dusek (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

179 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-137-37489-9 (ISBN)

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This book examines Fuller’s pioneering vision of social epistemology. It focuses specifically on his work post-2000, which is founded in the changing conception of humanity and project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human future. Chapters treat especially Fuller’s provocative response to the changing boundary conditions of the knower due to anticipated changes in humanity coming from the nanosciences, neuroscience, synthetic biology and computer technology and end on an interview with Fuller himself.
While Fuller’s turn in this direction has invited at least as much criticism as his earlier work, to him the result is an extended sense of the knower, or ‘humanity 2.0’, which Fuller himself identifies with transhumanism. The authors assess Fuller’s work on the following issues: Science and Technology Studies (STS), the university and intellectual life, neo-liberal political economy, intelligent design, Cosmism, Gnosticism, agent-oriented epistemology, proactionary vs precautionary principles and Welfare State 2.0.

Val Dusek is author of The Holistic Inspirations of Science, Philosophy of Technology: An Introduction and co-edited with Robert Scharff Philosophy of Technology, The Technological Condition. Dusek has previously written on C. S. Peirce, Marxism, the Science Wars, sociobiology and evolutionary psychology. Francis X Remedios is author of Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge: Steve Fuller’s Social Epistemology and numerous articles on Steve Fuller and social epistemology.

Chapter 1. Agent-Oriented Social Epistemology.- Chapter 2. Fuller's Relation to STS.- Chapter 3. University and Interdisciplinarity.- Chapter 4. Fuller’s Intelligent Design.- Chapter 5. Fuller’s Cosmism and Gnosticism.- Chapter 6. Proactionary vs. Precautionary Principles.- Chapter 7. Conclusion.- Chapter 8. Postscript – Interview with Steve Fuller.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.02.2018
Zusatzinfo	1 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 179 p. 1 illus.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	agent-oriented social epistemology • Cosmism • Epistemology • Fuller’s Cosmism and Gnosticism • Fuller’s Intelligent Design • Gnosticism • Intelligent Design • Philosophy • Science Studies • Social epistemology • Steve Fuller • Transhumanism
ISBN-10	1-137-37489-6 / 1137374896
ISBN-13	978-1-137-37489-9 / 9781137374899
Zustand	Neuware