Speakers

Prof. Steve Fuller currently the Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick. ‘Social epistemology’, is a field at the interface between philosophy and sociology which he founded and established, first with a journal (1987) and then with a book (1988). He has published more than twenty books, recently completing a trilogy relating to the idea of a ‘post-’ or ‘trans-‘ human future, all published with Palgrave Macmillan: Humanity 2.0: What It Means to Be Human Past, Present and Future (2011), Preparing for Life in Humanity 2.0 (2012) and (with Veronika Lipinska) The Proactionary Imperative: A Foundation for Transhumanism (2014). Among his other notable publications are: The governance of science: ideology and the future of the open society (2000), Science vs. religion?: intelligent design and the problem of evolution (2007), Knowledge: The Philosophical Quest in History (2015), Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game (2018). His works have been translated into over twenty languages. He was awarded a D. Litt. by the University of Warwick in 2007 for sustained lifelong contributions to scholarship. He has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.