Universität KonstanzExzellenzcluster: Kulturelle Grundlagen von Integration

Prof. em. Dr. David Bloor

Vita

David Bloor
Education

University of Keele 1960-64 (B.A.)
Trinity College Cambridge 1964-66 (B.A. M.A.)
University of Edinburgh 1971 (Ph.D.)

Appointments

University of Edinburgh (1967-2007)
Personal Chair in the Sociology of Science (1998-2007)
Director of the Science Studies Unit (1992-2003)

Visiting Fellowships

Vienna
UCSD
Harvard
MIT
Max-Planck-Institut (Berlin)

Research Concentrations

History and Sociology of Science
Epistemology and the Philosophy of Science

Functions within the Center

Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study Konstanz (September 2010-August 2011)

Research project “History of applied psychology (1900-1960)”
Abstract

Publications

Enigma of the Aerofoil. Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930. (2011) Chicago. University of Chicago Press.

“Epistemic Grace. Anti-Relativism as Theology in Disguise.” (2007) Common Knowledge: 13, 250-280.

Wittgenstein on Rules and Institutions. (1997) London. Routledge.

Scientific Knowledge. A Sociological Analysis. (1996) Chicago. University of Chicago Press. (With B. Barnes and J. Henry.)

Wittgenstein: A Social Theory of Knowledge. (1983) London. Macmillan.

Knowledge and Social Imagery. (1976 and 2nd edn. 1991) London, Routledge and Chicago. University of Chicago Press.

Contact

University of Edinburgh
E-Mail d.bloor[at]ed.ac.uk