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Robert W. Fuller

robert fullerRobert W. Fuller, former president of Oberlin College, is an internationally recognized authority on the subject of rankism and dignity. His books and ideas have been widely covered in the media, including The New York Times, Oprah Magazine, National Public Radio, C-SPAN, The Boston Globe, the BBC and Voice of America. Fuller has also given more than 300 talks at a variety of organizations, from Princeton University to Microsoft to Kaiser Hospital. Fuller is the author of Somebodies & Nobodiesa book that identified the malady of rankism and All Rise, which describes a dignitarian society committed to overcoming it and along with Pamela A. Gerloff is the co-author of the new book Dignity for All: How to Create a World without Rankism. His most recent books are Religion and Science: A Beautiful Friendship? and The Rowan Tree: A Novel. Contact Robert Fuller at Dignity4All (AT) breakingranks (DOT) net.

President Trump: Poster Boy for Rankism

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Robert Fuller: The protests following the inauguration of President Trump were about more than the dignity of women. They were about dignity for everyone.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on January 22, 2017

Donald Trump, Orchestra Conductor

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Robert W. Fuller: Like all demagogues, Trump is not a creator but an orchestrator of popular resentment.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on November 11, 2016

Ducking Death; Surviving Superannuation

Robert W. Fuller: When machines are as complex as our brains, and work according to the same principles, they’re very likely to be as awe-inspiring as we are, notwithstanding the fact that it will be we who’ve built them.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on January 27, 2015

What Is Man?

Ducking Death

Robert Fuller: Twentieth-century science has shown that humans, like other animals, function according to the same principles as the cosmos and everything in it.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on January 18, 2015

The Superself: Genome, Menome, and Wenome

Ducking Death

Robert Fuller: We balked at the seeming loss of the exceptional status implicit in Darwin’s theory of evolution, but eventually made peace with the incontrovertible fact of our simian ancestry.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on January 3, 2015

“Self” Is a Misnomer

Ducking Death

Robert W. Fuller: The word “self” carries strong connotations of autonomy, individuality, and self-sufficiency. It’s as if it were chosen to mask our interdependence. It’s hardly an exaggeration to say that in buying into this notion of selfhood, humankind got off on the wrong foot.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on December 22, 2014

Adjunct Faculty: Academic Apartheid

Adjunct Faculty Cheated

Robert Fuller: I need not belabor the immorality of paying adjuncts a fraction of what other faculty earn, and of denying them benefits, office space, parking rights, and a voice in departmental and institutional policy.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on July 26, 2014

Ending Academic Apartheid: Equity and Dignity for Adjunct Professors

Robert Fuller: No one takes exception to cost-cutting, but forcing one group to subsidize another that’s doing comparable work, while maintaining working conditions that signal second-class status, is what the world now rejects as Apartheid.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on December 17, 2013

Am I a Home for Identities?

Robert Fuller: We know that our current persona will eventually give way to another. In contrast, the self ages little, perhaps because it partakes of the detached agelessness of the witness.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on June 3, 2013

Who Am I?

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Robert Fuller: A better understanding of selfhood holds the promise of resolving perennial quarrels and putting us all on the same side as we face the challenges in a global future, not least of which will be coming to terms with machines who rival or surpass human intelligence.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on June 1, 2013

Rankism vs. the Golden Rule

SYMMETRY

Robert Fuller: What is Rankism? It is a collective name for the various ways power can be abused. Whereas rank is meant to serve, rankism is a self-serving perversion of service. There are many varieties of rankism — sexism, racism, and ableism are a few.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on April 29, 2013

Something America and China Could Do Together

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Robert Fuller: At the moment, the greatest threats to China and America come not from each other, but from flaws in their own systems of governance. Chinese and Americans alike are burdened by political systems that are not keeping pace with the times.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on April 23, 2013

The Source of Indignity

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Robert Fuller: The twentieth century witnessed the successful application of the strategies and tactics of identity politics. Those same organizational techniques, applied to overcoming rankism, can render it as insupportable as the isms that identity politics has now put on the defensive.

By Robert W. Fuller posted on April 14, 2013

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