Prof. em. Dr. David Bloor
Vita
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