David Bloor

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David Bloor

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#49

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According to Wikipedia, David Bloor is a British sociologist. He is a professor in, and a former director of, the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is a key figure in the Edinburgh school and played a major role in the development of the field of science and technology studies. He is best known for advocating the strong programme in the sociology of scientific knowledge, most notably in his book Knowledge and Social Imagery.

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David Bloor's Published Works

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Knowledge and social imagery (1977) (2554)
Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis (1974) (629)
Relativism, rationalism and the sociology of knowledge (1982) (456)
Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge (1985) (426)
Wittgenstein, Rules And Institutions (1997) (293)
Wittgenstein and Mannheim on the sociology of mathematics (1973) (207)
Durkheim and Mauss revisited: Classification and the sociology of knowledge (1982) (178)
Polyhedra and the Abominations of Leviticus (1978) (118)
The Strengths of the Strong Programme (1984) (108)
II.2 The Strengths of the Strong Programme (1981) (78)
Reply to Bruno Latour. (1999) (74)
Essay Review: Popper's Mystification of Objective Knowledge (1974) (69)
Idealism and the Sociology of Knowledge (1996) (64)
The Enigma of the Aerofoil: Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930 (2011) (46)
A Sociological Theory of Objectivity (1984) (37)
Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (2004) (37)
The Question of Linguistic Idealism Revisited (1996) (35)
Toward a Sociology of Epistemic Things (2005) (32)
Epistemic Grace: Antirelativism as Theology in Disguise (2007) (31)
The Sociology of Reasons: Or Why “Epistemic Factors” are Really “Social Factors” (1984) (26)
Remember the Strong Program? (1997) (25)
Hamilton and Peacock on the Essence of Algebra (1981) (25)
Essay Review: Two Paradigms for Scientific Knowledge? (1971) (22)
Relativism and the sociology of scientific knowledge (2011) (17)
Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Approach (1996) (15)
The Living Foundations of Mathematics (1987) (15)
Ideals and monisms: recent criticisms of the Strong Programme in the sociology of knowledge (2007) (15)
Boundaries, Contingencies and Rigor (2003) (13)
Some Determinants of Cognitive Style in Science (1986) (12)
Institutions and Rule-Scepticism (2004) (12)
Ordinary Human Inference as Material for the Sociology of Knowledge (1992) (12)
Wittgenstein's Lectures (1991) (12)
The dialectics of metaphor (1971) (10)
The structure of scientific inference: Mary Hesse, London: Macmillan, 1974. viii + 309 pp. £5.95 (1975) (8)
Changing Axes (1998) (8)
Is the Official Theory of Mind Absurd? (1970) (8)
Sichtbarmachung, common sense and construction in fluid mechanics: the cases of Hele-Shaw and Ludwig Prandtl (2008) (8)
A Philosophical Approach to Science (1975) (7)
A reply to Gerd Buchdahl (1982) (7)
Acknowledgement: Reproduced by kind permission of the Guardian from the issue of 25 June 1996 (1997) (6)
Knowing reality through society (1998) (5)
Reply to J.W. Smith (1984) (5)
Explanation and analysis in Strawson's ‘Persons’ (1970) (5)
Reply to Steven Lukes (1982) (4)
Reply to Christopher Norris (2014) (4)
The Finite Wing (2011) (4)
Thomas S. Kuhn (18 July 1922 - 17 June 1996) (1997) (4)
Wittgenstein's Behaviorism (1999) (3)
Strong Program, in Sociology of Scientific Knowledge (2001) (3)
Professor Campbell on Models of Language-Learning and the Sociology of Science: A Reply (1989) (3)
Wittgenstein as a Conservative Thinker (2000) (3)
Coleridge's Moral Copula (1983) (2)
Malaise of British science (1987) (2)
Cognitive Models of Science (1993) (2)
A Civil Skepticism (1998) (2)
Relativism Versus Absolutism: In Defense of a Dichotomy (2016) (2)
Obituary: David Owen Edge (2003) (2)
Mathematics: An Anthropological Phenomenon (1983) (1)
FOR THE RECORD (2000) (1)
Ian Hacking The Social Construction of What? Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press1999. Pp. x + 261. (2000) (1)
Philosophy of Science (1979) (1)
Compulsions, Conventions and Codifications (1983) (1)
Science as a cultural construct (1997) (1)
Relativism and antinomianism (2019) (1)
Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes (2008) (1)
Review of Galison, How Experiments End (1991) (1)
ROGER SMITH, The Fontana History of the Human Sciences. London: Fontana Press, 1997. Pp. xviii+1036. ISBN 0-00-686178-4. £12.99 (paperback edition). (1998) (0)
Pessimism, Positivism, and Relativism: Aerodynamic Knowledge in Context (2011) (0)
Positivism and Cultural Pessimism (1983) (0)
The moving forces of history (1994) (0)
RULES AND THE STATE OF NATURE (2002) (0)
Notes for Contributors (1982) (0)
Early British Work on Lift and Drag (2011) (0)
Colour and other factors (1997) (0)
From Mental Images to Social Interactions (1983) (0)
Rearguard Rationalism (1974) (0)
Deaths of composers. (1972) (0)
'The Strong Program', 'Sociology of Scientific Knowledge', 'The Performative Theory of Institutions' (2013) (0)
Lanchester’s Cyclic Theory of Lift and Its Early Reception (2011) (0)
Technische Mechanik in Action: Kutta’s Arc and the Joukowsky Wing (2011) (0)
We Have Nothing to Learn from the Hun (2011) (0)
David Owen Edge (4 September 1932-28 January 2003). (2003) (0)
The Sociology of the Supernatural: Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics (2017) (0)
Sociologism and Relativism (2020) (0)
The Heirs to the Subject that used to be called Philosophy (1983) (0)
The World's Largest Machine: Global Telecommunications and the Human Condition [Book Reviews] (1997) (0)
Review symposia (1996) (0)
The Blackwell Companion to Relativism (2011) (0)
Acknowledgement (1997) (0)
Critical Notice (2000) (0)
Notes on Contributors (1978) (0)
Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Approach and Steven Shapin, The Scientific Revolution (1998) (0)
Science Studies (1982) (0)
Physics and its Concepts (1984) (0)
The Social Construction of Mental States (1983) (0)
The Systematic Study of Language-Games (1983) (0)
Strong Program, Sociology of (2015) (0)
A Problem and a Plan (1983) (0)
Book Review:Knowledge and Reflexivity: New Frontiers in the Sociology of Knowledge Steve Woolgar (1990) (0)
Jan Sapp, Where the Truth Lies: Franz Moewus and the Origins of Molecular Biology . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990. Pp. ix + 340. ISBN 0-521-36550-3, £30, $59.50 (hardback); 0-521-36751-4, £15, $18.95 (paperback). (1993) (0)
The Laws of Prandtl and the Laws of Nature (2011) (0)
Language-Games and the Stream of Life (1983) (0)
Two Traditions: Mathematical Physics and Technical Mechanics (2011) (0)
The Threat of Logical Mathematism: A Study on the Critique of Mathematical Logic in Germany at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Jarmo Pulkkinen (1996) (0)
Mathematicians versus Practical Men (2011) (0)

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University of Edinburgh