Knowledge and Social ImageryThe first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book. |
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Contents
The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge | 3 |
Sense Experience Materialism and Truth | 24 |
Sources of Resistance to the Strong Programme | 46 |
A Case Study | 55 |
A Naturalistic Approach to Mathematics | 84 |
Can There Be an Alternative Mathematics? | 107 |
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| Title | Knowledge and Social Imagery |
| Author | David Bloor |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0226060977, 9780226060972 |
| Length | 203 pages |
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