Knowledge and Social ImageryUniversity of Chicago Press, 1991 M09 24 - 203 pages The 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. |
Contents
1 The Strong Programme in the Sociology of Knowledge | 3 |
2 Sense Experience Materialism and Truth | 24 |
3 Sources of Resistance to the Strong Programme | 46 |
A Case Study | 55 |
5 A Naturalistic Approach to Mathematics | 84 |
6 Can There Be an Alternative Mathematics? | 107 |
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abstract alternative mathematics analysis applied approach argued argument arithmetic atomic Azande behaviour belief Bloor called causal cause cognitive common concept conclusion connection conventions correspondence counterexamples critics culture Diophantus discovery empirical empiricism ence error Euler's theorem example experience explain fact false Ferdinand Christian Baur Frege gas jar Greek mathematics groups ical idea ideologies individual inference interests Kuhn Kuhn's Lakatos laws logical London mathe matics means ment metaphor Mill Mill's theory modus ponens moral N-rays naturalistic nature negotiation notion objects paradigm pattern pebbles perhaps philosophical Philosophy of Science phlogiston phlogiston theory phrenology physical Popper position precisely Press principles problem processes proof provides psychological question rational reality reason relativism role Romantic sacred scientific knowledge scientists sense simple social society sociologists sociology of knowledge square strong programme structure style symmetry teleological tendency theoretical things thinkers thinking thought tion treated true truth variation witch