Knowing Humanity in the Social World The Path of Steve Fuller's Soci
This book examines Steve Fuller’s pioneering vision of social epistemology. It focuses specifically on his work post-2000, which is founded in the changing conception of humanity and project into a ‘post-‘ or ‘trans-‘ human future. Chapters treat especial
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Francis X Remedios and Val Dusek
Knowing Humanity in the Social World
Francis X Remedios • Val Dusek
Knowing Humanity in the Social World The Path of Steve Fuller’s Social Epistemology
Francis X Remedios Edmonton, Canada
Val Dusek University of New Hampshire Durham, NH, USA
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Foreword
Knowing Humanity in the Social World is an apt title for a book about my work, especially one focused on the period after my having founded “social epistemology” as an interdisciplinary field in the 1980s and 1990s. For nearly 20 years now, I have been in search of this being, the “human,” who is supposed to be the subject of significant epistemic activity. From the outset, I took seriously Michel Foucault’s observation in The Order of Things that the “human” has always been an uncertain entity, straddling the animal and the divine. But whereas Foucault himself affected a pose of indifference to the future of humanity worthy of a Darwinist—easy come, easy go, from the standpoint of geological time—I have struggled with the problem of what is it about our “humanity” that is worthy of preservation and enhancement. In my most re
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