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]

The difference between being principled and being ignorant is that the principled person ignores on purpose, whereas the ignorant person has no choice.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@mgekelly Put it this way: AI has the data of all authors, whose words are not even fully exploited by the authors themselves. I think there's plenty of room for AI innovation, if we don't build too many of our own biases into its operations.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Early alert for my next book, 'Reforming the Governance of Science', which revisits my 'The Governance of Science' after a quarter-century: https://t.co/ubpVObhXHA

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@readwithai They can do either.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

The mutual deference to expertise across academic disciplines has turned knowledge production into a house of cards.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@readwithai I think it's true across all academic disciplines. It helps explain why academics believe their work can be judged only by one of their own (aka 'peer review').

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

In any 'evolutionary' explanation, what's really explained is a pale shadow of what the evolutionist claims to be explaining.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

One of the most liberating -- and politically destabilizing -- features of our #PostTruth era is that virtually everyone (not just esoteric Leftists) makes use of deconstruction and the other forms of intellectual subversion developed under #Postmodernism.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

#AnalyticPhilosophy is the elephant graveyard of distinctions. So many drawn, so many forgotten...

[Andrei V Belyi @Belyiand]

Big time

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Academic publishers should learn that human authors treat their own works pretty much as AI does, namely, as raw material for future works. This is where the classic 'commodification' of knowledge (blah, blah) breaks down and intellectual property law is sent into a tailspin.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

One place where the late Bruno Latour and I definitely agreed is that the segregation of 'quantitative' and 'qualitative' methods has retarded the advance of the social sciences.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@FranOsrecki No, because 'real' philosophical importance has a certain longevity that speaks to something deep about a society's self-understanding - beyond the philosophy's ultimate epistemic value.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

The Sociology of Knowledge wouldn't be needed if people didn't think that Slavoj Zizek and Judith Butler are important philosophers.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@FranOsrecki Butler and Zizek are 'actually' important philosophers. The question is whether they're 'really' important. The sociology of knowledge can address both by adopting different timeframes.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

@Thucydiocy I can see why you're called 'Thucydiocy'!

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

I am still wedded to the idea that the best history is a certain way of doing philosophy -- 'philosophy teaching by examples', perhaps. It is ultimately preoccupied with decisions and consequences, both factual and counterfactual. #Thucydides

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

Dignity is indifferent to the distinction between peace and violence.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

I actually thought Nigel (via Matt) was channelling Harold Wilson's 'White heat of technology'...

[Matt Chorley @MattChorley]

I owe Nigel Farage an apology.

During last night’s Newsnight we covered the murder of Henry Nowak and the political reaction to the case, including discussing Nigel Farage’s comments about “pure, cold rage”.

However I referred to “white cold rage”. This was a mistake on my part, a misremembering of the quote. It didn’t change the content of the interview but I should have got the quote right. I apologise to Nigel Farage for this.

[Steve Fuller @ProfSteveFuller]

My mother always talked about Amelia Earhart as a role model for women. She was always about walking the walk.

[Popular Mechanics @PopMech]

After 89 Years, the Clue Leading to Amelia Earhart’s Plane May Have Surfaced. It’s Been There the Whole Time. https://t.co/NQ9n0kZ3VD