Robert W. Fuller

ROBERT W. Fuller earned his Ph.D. in physics at Princeton University and taught at Columbia, where he co-authored Mathematics of Classical and Quantum Physics. After serving as president of Oberlin College, he became a “citizen diplomat,” working toward improving international relations during the Cold War. During the 1990s, he served as board chair of the non-profit global corporation Internews and promoted democracy via free and independent media.

When the Cold War ended with the collapse of the USSR, Fuller reflected on his career and realized that he had been, at different times in his life, a somebody and a nobody. His periodic sojourns into “Nobodyland” led him to identify rankism—abuse of the power inherent in rank—and ultimately to write SOMEBODIES AND NOBODIES: OVERCOMING THE ABUSE OF RANK. Three years later, he published a sequel that focuses on building a “dignitarian society” titled ALL RISE: SOMEBODIES, NOBODIES, AND THE POLITICS OF DIGNITY. With co-author Pamela Gerloff, he has also published DIGNITY FOR ALL: HOW TO CREATE A WORLD WITHOUT RANKISM. His most recent books are RELIGION AND SCIENCE: A BEAUTIFUL FRIENDSHIP?; GENOMES, MENOMES, WENOMES: NEUROSCIENCE AND HUMAN DIGNITY; THE WISDOM OF SCIENCE; BELONGING: A MEMOIR; THE THEORY OF EVERYBODY; and THE ROWAN TREE: A NOVEL.

Website: http://www.robertworksfuller.com
Twitter: @robertwfuller
Facebook: Facebook profile
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/robert-fuller/4/975/2b4
Blog: http://www.breakingranks.net/weblog/feed/

http://www.amazon.com/Robert-W.-Fuller/e/B001JS0YWQ/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1

Back to profile overview

Back to profile overview

60s    activism    africa    age 8 to 9    aphorisms    artificial intelligence    autobiography    ballet    beautiful friendship    belief    bell labs    belonging    body    brain    brotherhood of man    calvin s fuller    childrens book    childrens literature    china    community    consciousness    democracy    digity    dignitarian society    dignity    diplomacy    enlightenment    ethics    explanation    faith    fiction    future    genius    genome    global    globalism    god    golden rule    good will    grail quest    great ideas    great thinkers    great thoughts    historical fiction    history of science    history of technology    human spirit    idea    ideas    identity    identity politics    india    indignity    insider    inspiration    intellectual    intelligence    international    liberation    literature    literature and fiction    literature and history    love    machines    manhood    memoir    mind    miracles    model building    models    morality    myth    neurophilosophy    neuropsychology    novel    outsider    peace on earth    personality    philosophical novel    philosophy    philosophy of science    political fiction    political theory    politics    politics of dignity    president    psychology    public policy    quest    quotes    rankism    relationships    religion    religion and science    robert fuller    robert w fuller    romance    russia    science    scientific thinkers    self    social theory    society    solar cell    somalia    somebodies and nobodies    soul    speculative fiction    spirit    spiritual adventure    storybook    suffering    symmetry    terrorism    the rowan tree    theory of everything    transformation    truth    university    wisdom    world   

• The Final Battle on April 05, 2013
  
  In "The Final Battle" a very smart robot confronts a very accomplished human being about the inconsistencies and errors in the conventional religious and philosophical wisdom of our time. It won't spoil the story to know that the robot makes mincemeat of the human because the moral of Dr. Nagraj Rao's short but compelling book lies in the robot's reasoning. This incisive little book can serve as a starting point for conversations on the role of religion now and in the future.