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  • Science

    by Steve Fuller ...
    Series series The Art of Living
    In this challenging and provocative book, Steve Fuller contends that our continuing faith in science in the face of its actual history is best understood as the secular residue of a religiously inspired belief in divine providence. Our faith in science is the promise of a life as it shall be, as science will make it one day. Just as men once put their faith in God's activity in the world, so we ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The New Sociological Imagination

    by Steve Fuller ...
    C. Wright Mills′ classic The Sociological Imagination has inspired generations of students to study Sociology. However, the book is nearly half a century old. What would a book address, aiming to attract and inform students in the 21st century? This is the task that Steve Fuller sets himself in this major new invitation to study Sociology. The book:Critically examines the history of the social ... Read more

    $94.49 USD

  • Science vs. Religion

    by Steve Fuller ...
    For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and religion by focusing on the heated debates about evolution and intelligent design theory. In so doing, he claims that science vs. religion is in fact a false dichotomy. For Fuller, supposedly intellectual disputes, such as ... Read more

    $17.00 USD

  • Back to the University's Future

    The Second Coming of Humboldt

    by Steve Fuller ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This volume addresses the central question facing the future of higher education around the world, whether and why universities need to exist at all. This book accepts the question’s premise: It is not clear that the university is any longer needed as an institution -- that is, unless its defenders recover what had made the university the revolutionary institution that over the past two centuries ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Post-Truth

    Knowledge As A Power Game

    by Steve Fuller ...
    Series series Key Issues in Modern Sociology
    ‘Post-Truth’ was Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year. While the term was coined by its disparagers, especially in light of the Brexit and US Presidential campaigns, the roots of post-truth lie deep in the history of Western social and political theory. This book reaches back to Plato, ranges across theology and philosophy, and focuses on the Machiavellian tradition in classical sociology. ... Read more

    $21.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies

    by Steve Fuller ...
    As the field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) has become more established, it has increasingly hidden its philosophical roots. While the trend is typical of disciplines striving for maturity, Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues that STS has much to lose if it abandons philosophy.In his characteristically provocative style, he offers the first sustained treatment of the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Philosophy Of Science And Its Discontents

    by Steve Fuller ...
    The most important and exciting recent development in the philosophy of science is its merging with the sociology of scientific knowledge. Here is the first text book to make this development available. ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Knowledge Book

    Key Concepts in Philosophy, Science and Culture

    by Steve Fuller ...
    "The Knowledge Book" is a unique interdisciplinary reference work for students and researchers concerned with the nature of knowledge. It is the first work of its kind to be organized on the assumption that whatever else knowledge might be, it is intrinsically social. The book consists of 42 alphabetically arranged entries on key concepts at the intersection of philosophy and sociology - what used ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • To Judge and To Justify

    Profiles of the Academic Vocation

    by Steve Fuller ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This book argues that judging and justifying are the two skills that specifically require academic training. In the current times, where the value of a university degree is increasingly questioned, it’s important to emphasize the significance of these skills. This volume addresses that universities are not necessarily stressing these skills, preferring instead to focus on the delivery of ‘content’ ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • A Player's Guide to the Post-Truth Condition

    The Name of the Game

    by Steve Fuller ...
    A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game presents sixteen short, readable chapters designed to leverage our post-truth condition’s deep historical and philosophical roots into opportunities for unprecedented innovation and change. Fuller offers a bracing, proactive and hopeful vision against the tendency to demonize post-truth as the realm of ‘fake news’ and ‘bullshit’. ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Knowledge

    The Philosophical Quest in History

    by Steve Fuller ...
    The theory of knowledge, or epistemology, is often regarded as a dry topic that bears little relation to actual knowledge practices. Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History addresses this perception by showing the roots, developments and prospects of modern epistemology from its beginnings in the nineteenth century to the present day.Beginning with an introduction to the central questions ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies

    by Steve Fuller ...
    Steve Fuller has a reputation for setting the terms of debate within science and technology studies. In his latest book, New Frontiers in Science and Technology Studies he charts the debates likely to be of relevance in the coming years.Should science and technology be treated as separate entities?What impact has globalization had on science and technology?Can science be clearly distinguished from ... Read more

    $21.00 USD