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Birth
David Bloor is born on June 28, 1942 in Derby, United Kingdom. -
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Life
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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
David Bloor receives his PhD from the University of Edinburgh following his thesis "Speech and the Regulation of Behavior" This is . -
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
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.
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
