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Professor of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick, UK

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Nov 24

New book just out: 'To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation' (Springer): link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

To Judge and To Justify

This book argues that judging and explaining are the two academic skills that specifically require further training

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · 4d

Some people don't care if you learn anything from them as long as you respect them for who they are. It's almost as if they'd prefer to be an artwork than a resource. It's an interesting situation, which unfortunately is contaminated by the idea of selfishness.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · 21d

You should wait until ChatGPT provides *correct* references.

Pelagia @pelagia.bsky.social · 21d

I'll do references when I am done writing.
Me doing references:

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Aug 4

People who like to accuse others of committing 'fallacies' should discover the #enthymeme. And once they do, they might expand their understanding of so-called 'dog whistle politics'.

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Luke Robert Mason @lukerobertmason.net · Jul 31

“Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine should be.” - Arthur C. Clarke

@profstevefuller.bsky.social's update (below) with a similar sentiment, "You don't want to have a bionic textbook whose content is reducible to their PowerPoints."

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jul 26

It doesn't need to be, but once you see it's already happening, you can be deliberate about it.

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jul 26

Yep. And it's happening all the time these days!

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jul 26

The best way to overturn the standard is to confuse people about what the standard is. The first step is to render the discrete continuous.

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jul 26

If you want to remind people of what they already supposedly know, then do it succinctly like #Wittgenstein. Otherwise, it's not a reminder but a lesson. Latter-day analytic philosophers have totally missed the performative character of Wittgenstein's philosophy.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jul 25

My next book 'Media and the Power of Knowledge', soon to be published by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social, is based on some of my teaching, where I've promoted truth-telling as a performing art.

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jul 22

People here might be interested in an online lecture I gave a couple of months ago to students at Tokyo Tech on the relationship between science and science fiction:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5stp...

The Distinction Between Science & Science Fiction | Prof. Steve Fuller | Institute of Science Tokyo

YouTube video by Prof. Steve Fuller

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Institute of Art and Ideas @iai.tv · Jun 21

Has science killed philosophy? | iai.tv/video/hawkin...

Lewis Wolpert, Steve Fuller and Jonathan Derbyshire investigate the limits of science and philosophy.

#philsky #philsci ⚛️ 🧪

Hawking vs. Philosophy

Stephen Hawking declared the death of philosophy. Was he right? Has science rendered philosophy obsolete? Should we be looking to science to answer the biggest questions, or are there areas of…

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 20

Universities have never made clear whether 'dignity in the workplace' covers 'not insulting your intelligence'.

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 20

Because universities are such boutique things, it's amazing that the people marketing universities these days lack that sensibility. There's more to it than simply generating memes. You need to know your competition and be able to back it up under scrutiny.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 20

Maybe the best way to deal with Generative AI is to presume that everything it says is Heideggerian 'Gerede' (idle talk, gossip), and then proceed from there.

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 20

A well-run university has a good sense of its academic staff's capacities and then try to build on them. The resulting policies shouldn't look like something generated by ChatGPT.

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Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 20

The ultimate expression of intellectual property is the idea that empathy is mind theft.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 18

You shouldn't be deterred from doing the right thing even if doing the wrong thing would produce more good. This is real #ethics, upfront and personal. It's why Kant and Bentham are the key figures -- and why we all end up Existentialists.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 16

Academia as papier-mâché: Somebody should run with that metaphor.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 16

If you don't say what you think on a regular basis, you can easily forget that you think at all. #SocialMedia is actually quite helpful in this respect.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 16

The mass of unacknowledged and unpaid labour involved in academic decision making at all levels -- from staff hiring to journal publication to project funding -- would make any rapacious capitalist weep with envy.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 15

As someone who re-reads and re-listens to what he says from time to time, I am struck less by having said something wrong than having said something that failed to express what I meant. I find this awareness very motivational. I recommend it as a way to improve thinking.

Steve Fuller @profstevefuller.bsky.social · Jun 15

When we defend #science, we are primarily defending a certain way of producing knowledge. The ideas promoted by science can easily be accessed through philosophy, literature and even meditation.

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Domingos Faria @dfaria.eu · Jul 16

New at #SocialEpistemology: Chinese Philosophy and Civilization as Seen from a Western Lens, Steve Fuller https://social-epistemology.com/2024/07/16/chinese-philosophy-and-civilization-as-seen-from-a-western-lens-steve-fuller/ https://social.dfaria.eu/?hashtag=2024-07-16T14:40:03Z

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SERRC @serrc.bsky.social · Mar 26

Six Challenges for Science, Technology, and Society in the Future, Steve Fuller

The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for…

Six Challenges for Science, Technology, and Society in the Future, Steve Fuller

The pretext for the following piece is that Ilya Kasavin, who holds the Chair in Social Epistemology at the Institute of Philosophy in the Russian Academy of Sciences, recently asked me to identify some challenges for society in the short to medium term that would result from science and technology reconstituting the social world. Below you will find six challenges, some of which have been previously discussed on…

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Nikola Danaylov Ⓥ @veganfuturist.bsky.social · Apr 18

🧬 **Steve Fuller on Transhumanism**

“What does it mean to be human in a posthuman age?”

Materialist theology, morphological freedom & the ethics of transcendence.

Watch here: snglrty.co/4feHhL9

#Transhumanism #AI #Posthumanism #SteveFuller #Podcast

Prof. Steve Fuller on Transhumanism: Ask yourself what is human?

Steve Fuller is the author of a trilogy relating to our ‘post-’ or ‘trans-‘ human future. Check out this interview for his thoughts on transhumanism.

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