Steve Fuller (sociologist)

Steve William Fuller ( born July 12, 1959 in New York) is an American sociologist and currently a professor at the University of Warwick. Fuller is a regular guest lecturer at several universities in Germany. Example at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen He is considered the founder of a so-called " social epistemology " ( social epistemology ). He was known especially for his position on Intelligent Design over the boundaries of science beyond - Fuller represents a scientific raison d'être of this theory.

Life

Fuller attended a Jesuit College in Manhattan with the help of a scholarship. From 1976 he studied at Columbia University, as well as in Cambridge. His subjects were history, philosophy and sociology of knowledge. 1985 Fuller received his doctorate at the University of Pittsburgh on " Bounded rationality in law and science." Fuller taught and researched at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Virginia Tech and the University of Pittsburgh. In 1994 he was appointed Full Professor of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Durham in England. Since 1999, Fuller has held a chair at the University of Warwick. Fuller has published 15 books and numerous magazine articles.

Film

Fuller appears in the documentary by Ben Stein Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed on, stating the following about you: If you take seriously did evolution Has to do with the transition of life forms, and did life and death are just natural processes, then one gets to be liberal about abortion and euthanasia. All Of Those kinds of ideas SEEM to me follow very naturally from a Darwinian perspective - a deprivileging of human beings, of basically. And I think people who want to endorse Darwinism have to take this kind of viewpoint very seriously. " If you accept the theory of evolution seriously, namely that this has to do with the transition of life forms. Then life and death are only natural processes. Then you will be more liberal with respect to the issues abortion and euthanasia. All these kinds of ideas seem to me the natural result of a Darwinian perspective to be - basically a Deprivilegierung of man. And I think people who support Darwinism need to take this idea very seriously. "