Humanity 2.0 |  Prof. Steve Fuller | Virtual Futures 2011
Channel: Virtual Futures
Date: 2012-02-01

Professor Steve Fuller - Who will recognize Humanity 2.0 - and it will it recognize us?

Virtual Futures
University of Warwick, 18-19 June 2011
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Steve Fuller is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Originally trained in history and philosophy of science, he is best known for his work in the field of 'social epistemology', which is concerned with the normative foundations of organized inquiry. It is also the name of a quarterly journal he founded in 1987 and the first of his eighteen books. His most recent books are The Sociology of Intellectual Life: The Career of the Mind in and around the Academy (Sage, 2009), Science: The Art of Living (Acumen and McGill-Queens University Press, 2010) and the forthcoming Humanity 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of What It Means to Be Human (Palgrave Macmillan, September 2011). Fuller's original interest in transhumanism stems from his having been the UK partner in the European Union Framework VI project, 'The Knowledge Politics of the Converging Technologies Agenda' (2006-2009).