David bloor

PHIL202 Timeline 2 - David Bloor 1942 - Present

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  • Birth

    Birth

    David Bloor is born on June 28, 1942 in Derby, United Kingdom.
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    Life

  • Period: to

    Strong Programme - Edinburgh School

    During the 1970's Bloor and colleague Barry Barnes were heavily involved in the Stong Programme. Also, occasionally termed as the Edinburgh School. This was a program developed to study scientific knowledge from a sociological point of view.
  • University of Edinburgh - Beginning of his Journey into Sociology

    University of Edinburgh - Beginning of his Journey into Sociology

    David Bloor receives his PhD from the University of Edinburgh following his thesis "Speech and the Regulation of Behavior" This is .
  • Anit-Latour

    Anit-Latour

    David Bloor published an article called Anti-Latour in which he defended the approach of the Sociology of Knowledge against Bruno Latour and his criticism of his Sociology of Knowledge.
  • Major Contributions

    Major Contributions

    Bloor, David (1983). Wittgenstein: a social theory of knowledge. Macmillan and Columbia.
    Bloor, David (1991) [1976]. Knowledge and social imagery (2nd ed.). Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
    Bloor, David; Barnes, Barry; Henry, John (1996). Scientific knowledge: a sociological analysis. Athlone and Chicago University Press.
  • Major Works Cont.

    Major Works Cont.

    Bloor, David (1997). Wittgenstein: rules and institutions. Routledge.
    Bloor, David (2011). The enigma of the aerofoil: rival theories in aerodynamics, 1909–1930. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.

  • YouTube Video

    I have included a link to a YouTube video which discusses in more detail what the Strong Program consisted of. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C10Q0mEbhUI