Synopsis
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.
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The purpose is to bring out the way in which social images and metaphors govern these rival claims, to determining their style, content and relations to one another.
About the Author
David Bloor, one of the founders of the "strong programme" at the University of Edinburgh Science Studies Unit, is the author of "Wittgenstein and Social Science."
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