LIBROS DEL AUTOR: steve fuller

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  • Back to the University’s Future
    Steve Fuller
    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...
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    48,35 €

  • Philosophy Of Science And Its Discontents
    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. ...
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    80,25 €

  • A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition
    Steve Fuller
    This book is a shorter, more accessible and updated follow-up to Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, which remains the only book that sheds a largely hopeful light on our post-truth condition across a wide range of intellectual fields and public affairs, including Brexit, Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic. ...
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    40,28 €

  • Post-Truth
    Steve Fuller
    ’Post-truth’, Oxford Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, appears to cover only the turn away from reason in contemporary politics. In fact the truth behind ’post-truth’ is historically and philosophically more complex. As Fuller shows in this book, it reaches into the nature of knowledge itself. ...
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    57,50 €

  • Knowledge
    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 ...
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    98,64 €

  • The Proactionary Imperative
    Steve Fuller / Veronika Lipińska
    The ’proactionary principle’ was introduced by transhumanists. Whereas precautionaries believe that we are on the brink of environmental catastrophe because we’re too willing to take risks, proactionaries believe that humans stand apart from the rest of nature by our capacity for successful risk taking. In terms of current environmental problems, therefore, solutions lie not in...
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    109,94 €

  • Humanity 2.0
    Steve Fuller
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    66,38 €

  • The New Sociological Imagination
    Steve Fuller
    Wright Mills’ classic The Sociological Imagination has inspired generations of students to study Sociology. However, it is nearly half a century old. What would a book address, aiming to attract and inform students today? This book sets the agenda for imagining Sociology in the 21st century. ...
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    141,86 €

  • The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies
    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 tr...
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    77,49 €