Steve Fuller currently holds the Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. He is most closely associated with the research program of social epistemology. It is the name of a quarterly journal he founded with Taylor & Francis in 1987, as well as the first of his more than twenty books. His most recent work has been concerned with the future of humanity, or ‘Humanity 2.0’. He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts since 1995, the UK Academy of Social Sciences and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Breakthrough Institute, the leading ‘ecomodernist’ think-tank and an Affiliate Scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, the leading ‘transhumanist’ think-tank.