Steve Fuller (born 1959, New York City) is Professor of Sociology. He is most closely associated with the research program of social epistemology. Originally trained in the history and philosophy of science (Ph.D., 1985, University of Pittsburgh), he is the founder of the research program of social epistemology. It is the name of a quarterly journal he founded with Taylor & Francis in 1987, as well as the first of his books: Social Epistemology (Indiana University Press, 1988), Philosophy of Science and Its Discontents, 2nd edn. (Guilford Press, 1993), Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993; 2nd edn. with James Collier, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004), Science (Open University Press and University of Minnesota Press, 1997), The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society (Open University Press, 2000), Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times (University of Chicago Press, 2000); Knowledge Management Foundations (Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002); Kuhn vs Popper: The Struggle for the Soul of Science (Icon and Columbia University Press, 2003); The Intellectual (Icon 2005); The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies (Routledge, 2006); The New Sociological Imagination (Sage, 2006).

Fuller has organized two global cyberconferences for the UK's Economic and Social Research Council: one on public understanding of science (1998), and another on peer review in the social sciences (1999). He has spoken in over 25 countries, often keynoting professional academic conferences, and has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1995. His writings has been translated into fifteen languages. His book Kuhn vs Popper was named book of the month (Feb 2005) by the US magazine, Popular Science, and The Intellectual was named a book of the year by the UK magazine New Statesman for 2005.

Since coming to Warwick in 1999, he has supervised several Ph.D. students, taught on the Doctoral Training Programme and the MA in Social Research. He has been convenor of the MA in Philosophy and Social Theory. At the undergraduate level, he teaches the social theory of law, sociology of science and occasionally sociological imagination and investigation. He welcomes students working in the sociology of knowledge, history, philosophy and sociology of science, and normative issues relating to recent developments on the impact of science and technology on the political order, especially concerning our changing conceptions of the biological and what it means to be human.

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Audio versions of public and academic lectures

Audio lectures for Sociology of Knowledge, Science and Intellectuals 2007-8

Audio lectures for Media Sociology 2009

Audio lectures for Theoretical Ideas in Sociology

Theoretical Ideas in Sociology 2008-09

Fuller's TEDx Video Lecture on the Future of Humanity, Feb 2009

Fuller's Blog: Making the University Safe for Intellectual Life in the 21st Century