RESEARCH PROFILE

Steve Fuller graduated from Columbia University in History & Sociology before gaining an M.Phil. from Cambridge and PhD from Pittsburgh, both in the History and Philosophy of Science. 

His major publications are: Social Epistemology (1988), Philosophy of Science and its Discontents (2^nd edn.)(1993), Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge (2^nd edn) (2003), Science (1997), The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (2000), Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History of Our Times (2000), Knowledge Management Foundations (2002) and Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (2003).

Major areas of research are the future of the University and critical intellectuals, the emergence of intellectual property in the information society, the interdisciplinary challenges in the natural and social sciences, the political and epistemological consequences of the new biology.

His undergraduate teaching is in the sociology of law and the sociology of science.  He supervises many Ph.D. students and teaches philosophy of the social sciences in the Ph.D. research training programme. 

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

• Mimetic factors in individual behaviour: Health and Well Being, with Dr Nicholas M Lee - Institute of Education Dr Frances E Griffiths - Health Sciences Research Institute Dr Ann Adams - Health Sciences Research Institute, ESRC, Project Start Date: 31/03/2009 Project End Date: 28/02/2010
  
  

  Further Research Projects

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Prof Steve W Fuller (2010) Science: The Art of Living , Acumen
• Fuller, S. (2009) 'Knowledge politics and new converging technologies: a social epistemological perspective' Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research 22 (1), 7 - 34 (1351-1610) [article]
• Prof Steve W Fuller (2009) The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Career of the Mind in and Around the Academy , Sage
• Fuller, S (2009) 'Life beyond Darwin: unbinding biology's time and space' Progress In Human Geography 33 (1), 1 - 7 (0309-1325)
• Prof Steve W Fuller (2009) 'Dissent over Descent: Reply to Richards' History Of The Human Sciences 22 (5), 117 - 123 (0952-6951)

Further Publications