Steve Fuller Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Steve Fuller on X
Prof of Sociology, @warwickuni. Founder of Social Epistemology and Author of Humanity 2.0 and Post Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game
Inferno: Italian-English Parallel Text
DanteSteve FullerThere's definitely some weird symbiosis between @theWesleyJSmith and @zoltan_istvan. Maybe they'll eventually find themselves triggering each other ad infinitum in the same circle of Dante's Inferno. Now that's what I call #immortality! 😜 https://t.co/Jj4mqgL6lY
Paperback, 2021
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Plough, Sword, and Book: The Structure of Human History
Ernest GellnerSteve FullerErnest #Gellner's great book on world history, 'Plough, Sword and Book', casts the human condition as a conflict between the #BluePill and #RedPill people. Gellner is on the side of the latter, aka #Modernity.
Paperback, 1992
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Public Relations
Edward L. BernaysSteve Fuller@SlobodanIsFree Sure, if you want to be 'scholarly' about origins. However, when Edward Bernays is promoting 'public relations' as a legitimate field, he very well knew that he had to overcome the irritability/suggestibility divide.
Paperback, 2014
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Illustrated
Edwin Abbott AbbottSteve FullerWas #Quine influenced by Edwin Abbott's #Flatland in his ontological views? https://t.co/cRfu67AAAj
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Lost Horizon
James HiltonSteve FullerAnyone truly interested in human #longevity should read Oscar #Wilde's 'Dorian Gray' against James Hilton's 'Lost Horizon'. https://t.co/PFFgaGkkOo
Paperback, 2012
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Behaviorism: Classic Studies
Edward C. TolmanSteve FullerEdward Chace #Tolman, champion of 'purposive #behaviorism', is worth a second look today: https://t.co/rMcY5z216z
Paperback, 2009
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Republic
PlatoSteve FullerIf academics and intellectuals had the material reach of politicians, they would simply become politicians. This helps to motivate the thinking behind #Plato's #Republic.
Paperback, 2012
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Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?: 23 Questions from Great Philosophers
Leszek KolakowskiSteve Fuller"Why is there something rather than nothing?" becomes a deep metaphysical question once you realize that nothing might be better.
Hardcover, 2007
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Women of Trachis: Play
Ezra PoundSteve FullerThe worst sin of jobbing academic editors is to aspire to play Ezra Pound to TS Eliot in the Wasteland. You'll just spend a lot of time that will gain you no favors.
Paperback, 1985
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Meno
PlatoSteve Fuller@SlobodanIsFree This videoclip is really interesting. It suggests that #PromptEngineering is reinventing #Plato's #Meno.
Paperback, 2025
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