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1972: In 1972 he was awarded a PhD by the University of Edinburgh for his thesis "Speech and the regulation of behaviour."
Bloor's dissertation thesis clearly was a foundation for his future work on social imagery and by that time he had formulated many of his ideas about the Strong Programme. Link text -
1976 Knowledge and Social Imagery (Routledge, 1976)
Link text Causality: it examines the conditions (psychological, social, and cultural) that bring about claims to a certain kind of knowledge.
Impartiality: it examines successful as well as unsuccessful knowledge claims.
Symmetry: the same types of explanations are used for successful and unsuccessful knowledge claims alike.
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1979: Electrical properties of polymers written by David Bloor was first published in 1979.
Bloor's analysis of Wittgenstein's account of rules and rule-following fuses the rare combination of philosophical and sociological viewpoints. Wittgenstein's unsubstantiated claim that the way we follow rules is an institutional concept is critiqued here as well. -
1983: Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge written by David Bloor was first published on December 01, 1983.
Bloor theorizes a topology of language games based on how they respond to anomalies-whether by excluding or adjusting anomalous information and practices. It is also a survey of Wittgenstein's views on the mind/body problem, private languages, and the foundations of logic and mathematics.
Bloor, David. Wittgenstein:A Social Theory of Knowledge. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983) -
1996 Scientific Knowledge: A Sociological Analysis
Application of cognitive science case studies and the applications of the social study of science produced amiable results on how science is actually done.
Barnes, Barry. Bloor, David. Henry, John. (University of Chicago Press, 1996) -
Strong Program video overview
Slide cast of David Bloors strong programme theory and why scientists believe they know what they know and the social construct of the scientific ecosystem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C10Q0mEbhUI
