Modal Power, Self-Conscious Science, and the Critique of Epistemic Paternalism, or How to Change your Mind: An Interview with Steve Fuller

  • Sharon Rider Uppsala University, Sweden
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3635218
Keywords: STS, Relativism, Realism, Post-Truth, Expertise, Modal Power

Abstract

This interview with Steve Fuller was conducted by e-mail between 3 September and 31 October, 2019, Professor Steve Fuller was sent six detailed, written questions regarding a number of his fundamental concerns as these have been articulated throughout his work. The broad themes covered have to do, inter alia, with his views on philosophy as a discipline, the conditions of scientific progress, the role of traditions in human thinking, and the implications of his position on these and other issues for the future of higher education. The interview consists of the questions together with his written responses.  A list of references to published works relevant to Professor Fuller’s answers in the interview is appended.

Author Biography

Sharon Rider, Uppsala University, Sweden

SHARON RIDER is Professor of Logic and Metaphysics at Uppsala University, Sweden. Doctor in Philosophy [≈PhD], Uppsala University. Her main research interests are in 19th and 20th century European thought falling within the domain of philosophical anthropology, broadly understood. She has edited books as Post–Truth, Fake News: Viral Modernity & Higher Education (Singapore: Springer, 2018), with Michael A. Peters, Mats Hyvönen and Tina Besley; Transformations in Research, Higher Education and the Academic Market: The Breakdown of Scientific Thought (Dordrecht: Springer 2013), with Ylva Hasselberg and Alexandra Waluszewski; and Reclaim the science!: om vetenskapens avakademisering (Hedemora: Gidlund, 2007), with Anders Jörnesten.

References

Bernays, Edward (1928). Propaganda. New York: Horace Liveright.

Fuller, Steve (2000). The Governance of Science: Ideology and the Future of the Open Society. Milton Keynes UK: Open University Press.

Fuller, Steve (2006). The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies. London: Routledge.

Fuller, Steve (2013). ‘Deviant interdisciplinarity as philosophical practice: Prolegomena to deep intellectual history’. Synthese 190: pp. 1899-1916.

Fuller, Steve (2016). ‘A sense of epistemic agency fit for social epistemology’. In Social Epistemology and Epistemic Agency, edited by Patrick J. Reider. Lanham MD: Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 21-41.

Fuller, Steve (2018). Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game. London: Anthem.

Fuller, Steve (2019). ‘The metaphysical standing of the human: A future for the history of the human sciences’. History of the Human Sciences 32: pp. 23-40.

Fuller, Steve and James H. Collier (2004). Philosophy, Rhetoric and the End of Knowledge. 2nd ed. (Orig. 1993, by Fuller). Hillsdale NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Fuller, Steve and Veronika Lipinska (2014). The Proactionary Imperative. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Ripstein, Arthur (2016). Private Wrongs. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press.

Published
2019-12-31
How to Cite
[1]
Rider, S. 2019. Modal Power, Self-Conscious Science, and the Critique of Epistemic Paternalism, or How to Change your Mind: An Interview with Steve Fuller. Disputatio. 8, 11 (Dec. 2019), 597-615. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3635218.
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Vol. 8 No. 11 (2019)
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Interview

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