Steve Fuller
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Prof of Sociology, @warwickuni. Founder of Social Epistemology and Author of Humanity 2.0 and Post Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game
University of Warwick
Joined July 2011
My latest book is 'To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation'. The title refers to the two core academic skills, as understood through an interpretation of the history of philosophy.
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Tribalism v cosmopolitanism, as discussed by a cosmopolitan:
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Leon Botstein is a Swiss-born American conductor, educator, historical musicologist, and scholar serving as the President of Bard College since 1975.
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If you want to make young people open to the future, you need to lighten the burden that you carry from the past.
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All the great philosophies of history have had a keen sense of what changes and what remains the same, and then they theorize the difference to project the future.
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Method works best when it runs orthogonal to theoretical trends, ideally placing all theorists at some sort of disadvantage as they aim for validity. #ScienceAsGame.
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A creative person is a like a stem cell whose pluripotential nature has been channelled successfully.
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Which version of transhuman cyborg is likely to be more morally acceptable by society: one with inbuilt superpowers (e.g., Superman) or one with removable superpowers (e.g., Batman)?.
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Doubling down on a statement is often a good way to see what is at stake in an issue. It's like upping the ante in a card game.
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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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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.
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If you're conquered, oppose them at the level of administration. They rarely live up to the principles that informed their conquest.
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You know you've succeeded when you disdain and even distrust those who go out of their way to praise you. It shows that you've retained your autonomy in the face of a chance event. And that will facilitate your future success. #Stoicism.
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My next book 'Media and the Power of Knowledge', soon to be published by @BloomsburyBooks, is based on some of my teaching, where I've promoted truth-telling as a performing art.
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Egad, I just learned from @GoogleAI that my PhD supervisor was Martin Hollis! Why didn't anyone tell me?
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Was not impressed that ChatCPT has me having ‘done a doctorate in theology under Rowan Williams at Cambridge’. My doctorate was in philosophy under Leon Pompa at Birmingham — on Vico. (Published, along with additional material too long for inclusion in the submitted thesis.).
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There's no doubt that non-native speakers can gain a greater level of competence than native speakers of a language -- and they can even change the native linguistic norms. It's always happened and rarely noticed, unless politics gets in the way.
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I began to get interested in the nature of #humanity when I realized that people could relatively easily find substitutes for what humans normally do.
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All these people who think we need to have more children should do a better job at representing heterosexuality.
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I didn't have a lot of "You're brilliant" when I was a kid because that wasn't the style of my teachers. They didn't treat us like dogs in need of regular reinforcement.
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Cleverness doesn't always age well.
When Bill Gates tried to explain the internet in 1995. and people laughed.
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'Leverage' is a interesting word in this context. .
A @uniofwarwick spokesperson comments on the Beyond rebrand: “We have leveraged our academic expertise as part of the Vogue media partnership as well as our professional services marketing and communications work”.#Beyond #branding.
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