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Knowing Humanity in the Social World

The Path of Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology

By: Francis X Remedios,Val Dusek

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Knowing Humanity in the Social World

The Path of Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology

By: Francis X Remedios,Val Dusek

This book examines 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 especially Fuller’s provocative response to the changing boundary conditions of the knower due to anticipated changes in humanity coming from the nanosciences, neuroscience, synthetic biology and computer technology and end on an interview with Fuller himself. While Fuller’s turn in this direction has invited at least as much criticism as his earlier work, to him the result is an extended sense of the knower, or ‘humanity 2.0’, which Fuller himself identifies with transhumanism. The authors assess Fuller’s work on the following issues: Science and Technology Studies (STS), the university and intellectual life, neo-liberal political economy, intelligent design, Cosmism, Gnosticism, agent-oriented epistemology, proactionary vs precautionary principles and Welfare State 2.0.

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186

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Springer

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ISBN 10

113737490X

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9781137374905

Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge

An Introduction to Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology

By: Francis Remedios

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Legitimizing Scientific Knowledge

An Introduction to Steve Fuller's Social Epistemology

By: Francis Remedios

Francis Remedios provides important criticisms of Fuller's position and Fuller's responses to philosophical debates, as well as reconstructions of Fuller's arguments. The result is a carefully argued, in-depth analysis of the work of a very important philosopher of science."--Jacket.

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216

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Lexington Books

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0739106678

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9780739106679

Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World

The Orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis

By: Francis A. Dutra

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Military Orders in the Early Modern Portuguese World

The Orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis

By: Francis A. Dutra

During the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, the three Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis became that kingdom's most important institutions for rewarding services to the Crown. Membership in these military orders was highly prized as status symbols and because of the orders' "purity of blood" statutes, these knighthoods were more highly esteemed than mere patents of nobility, especially since such knighthoods automatically ennobled. Francis A. Dutra has written widely on the Portuguese military orders of Christ, Santiago and Avis - a topic generally neglected by students of early modern Portugal. This volume brings together a selection of his pioneering essays. Based extensively on archival research, they reflect his special interest in social mobility and use of the knighthoods for patronage, while particular sections focus on the role of the orders in the Portuguese maritime expansion and in India and Brazil, and on the medical profession. The collection includes English translations of four studies that originally appeared in Portuguese, as well as a detailed index, in itself a useful research tool.

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