Steve Fuller

Prof of Sociology, @warwickuni. Founder of Social Epistemology and Author of Humanity 2.0 and Post Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

My new book is 'Media and the Power of Knowledge'. It is partly based on lectures I've given over the last 15 years. It updates McLuhan for the age of @X: https://t.co/xtKx0LNltd

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@Ljiljana1972 'Engagement farming'! Is that a coinage of yours?

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

The worst habit that non-Western academics can adopt from Western academics is institutionalized complaint. If you really have a problem, address it at the level that it occurs for you. Don't speak on behalf of others, unless you think they will mobilize around you.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Yes, it's Popper 101.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.”

— Richard Feynman

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

This would be a nuisance lawsuit. The problem isn't with the media. It's with Cambridge University. Stick to that, if you want to be useful.

[Good Law Project @GoodLawProject]

Almost 150,000 people have demanded a public inquiry into Jason Arday's tragic death.

Join them 👇
https://t.co/LYQFBJovPO

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

The more I hear academics fuming about #plagiarism, the more I smell desperation from people trying to protect their proprietary rights in a system that is increasingly losing legitimacy on other grounds.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

China has several intellectually attractive figures, especially the more eccentric ones. Between Confucius and Laozi, I choose the latter. But I've also been looking into Wang Anshi and Hong Xiuquan. These were crazy guys who got serious traction -- for a while.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

In a truly libertarian world, people would realize when their freedom returns sufficiently diminished benefits to make suicide the better option.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@rwjdingwall Oh, I didn't know that!

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

When I think of academics who died with their boots on, I recall Alvin Gouldner's death in Madrid (1980) and Ernest Gellner's death in Prague (1995), both after a lecture.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

I don't normally think of myself as a snob, but there was this one time a few years ago when I inadvertently spat my drink at a friend's wife, when she waxed lyrically about a piece of kitsch. It had something to do with a seashell...

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

I agree. And Sarah Rogers @UnderSecPD would have been a better US Attorney General than Trump's former personal lawyer, which is what's happened recently.

[Claire Fox @Fox_Claire]

Defending right to hold his views hardly merits a headline. Pretty basic free speech principle. Assume this clipped cos of 'self proclaimed race realist' bit. But free speech is about right to express, not endorsement of, views. Conflation = cheap way to demonise free speechers

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Ha!

[VAN MUTOKA @vanmutoka1]

«Si tu n’es pas à la table,
Sache que tu es au menu » Elisabeth Warren

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Nowadays it really doesn't take very long to do the research needed to determine whether someone is worth taking seriously, especially if your intent is to support or oppose them. Indeed, it may lead you to refrain from doing either.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

You should not trust 'facts' unless you understand the conditions under which they were generated. We normally trust 'facts' because of who says them. This is why Francis Bacon wanted his 'facts' to be generated under more accountable conditions; hence the laboratory experiment.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

One for @Ljiljana1972: Princeton is telling its new freshmen to read a book that justifies reading books. I'm sure it's a fine book that's worth reading. But it does tell you something about today's world...

[Princeton University @Princeton]

At the Pre-read Assembly this evening, #Princeton2030 will hear from "Reader, Come Home" author Maryanne Wolf as she discusses the book with President Eisgruber.

The book was chosen for new students to read this summer because "it addresses a question of vital importance to every entering student: Why should we continue to read long, challenging books when artificial intelligence agents can quickly summarize them for us?" https://t.co/E3x1Z8Cd78

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

It would be an interesting legal system that punished only those who enable the perpetration of crimes. It would involve prosecuting families, churches and schools. This is the flipside of Conservatism's valorization of background and upbringing.

[Joseph de Maistre on X @FMClausewitz]

"The tiger that rips men open is only following his nature; the real criminal is the one who unleashes him on society."

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@carlgomb Actually, it's an interesting juxtaposition. I plan to give it some thought.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Perhaps, but more likely they are quantitative and qualitative versions of the same worldview.

[Carl Gombrich @carlgomb]

Population genetics is the doppelganger of intersectionality: beguiling but ultimately not much use at explaining anything.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

If you're interested in #transhumanism and #theology, I recommend my recent interview with @adamriggio: https://t.co/6Ok679VsZz. (Don't mind the clickbait title!) The premise for our discussion is this book: https://t.co/f31EBKMPas. @micahtredding should take a look.