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Claude Rosental

Visiting Professor of Sociology

Biographical Note

Claude Rosental is a Researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a Member of the Institut Marcel Mauss at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris, France. Before that he taught or conducted research at various institutions in France, the UK, and the US, such as the École des Mines in Paris, Imperial College, Brunel University, the University of California San Diego, Stanford University, or the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He received a B.S. in Logic, a B.A. and a M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne, a M.S. in Science and a Ph.D. in Sociology from the École des Mines in Paris, and an Habilitation in Social Sciences at the École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Professor Rosental has published in the fields of sociology of science and technology, communication, theory, social cognition, political sociology, networks and quantitative methods. One of his latest books, Weaving Self-Evidence: A Sociology of Logic, has been published in 2008 with Princeton University Press. During the spring 2009 term he will be Visiting Professor of Sociology teaching two undergraduate courses.

01/06/2009

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