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David Bloor
David Bloor (; born 1942) is a professor in, and a former director of, the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh. He is a key figure in the Edinburgh School and played a major role in the development of the field of Science and Technology Studies.〔Latour, B. (1999) 'For Bloor and Beyond' – a reply to David Bloor's 'Anti-Latour' Studies in History & Philosophy of Science, 30, n. 1, 113–129 ()〕 He is best known for advocating the Strong Programme in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge, most notably in his book ''Knowledge and Social Imagery''.
==Biography==
He was born in Derby. He started his academic career in philosophy and psychology. In the 1970s he and Barry Barnes were the major figures of the strong programme, which put forward queries against ''philosophical a priorism'' in the understanding of scientific knowledge. This is an approach, popular in the philosophy of science, that simply precluded inquiries about science by treating successful scientific knowledge as simply true or rational without empirically investigating how such knowledge has come to be accepted as true or rational. Bloor's book ''Knowledge and Social Imagery'' (Routledge, 1976) is one of the key texts of the strong programme.
Bloor wrote extensively on the Kuhn/Popper debate, and is a representative figure of the sociology of scientific knowledge. In the 1980s when French scholars like Bruno Latour developed the actor-network theory (partially based on the strong programme), David Bloor strongly disagreed with the ANT camp when they argued that human and non-humans should be treated in an equivalent manner, going so far as to write an article entitled "Anti-Latour".
He was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science in 1996 in recognition of his distinguished contribution to the field.〔List of winners of the John Desmond Bernal Prize http://www.4sonline.org/prizes/bernal〕
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