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Mar 01, 1951 73 years old
American philosopher
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About Stephen Park Turner
- Stephen Park Turner (born March 1, 1951) is a researcher in social practice, social and political theory, and the philosophy of the social sciences.
- He is Graduate Research Professor in the Department of Philosophy of the University of South Florida, where he also holds the title Distinguished University Professor.
- He has held a NEH Fellowship, was Simon Honorary Professor at Manchester University and has twice been the Advanced Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Studies Turner was born in Chicago, Illinois.
- He graduated from the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools in 1968 and then attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri.
- He received his undergraduate and his two master's degrees (one in philosophy and one in sociology) and his Ph.D.
- in sociology, with a dissertation on a philosophical topic, later published as Sociological Explanation as Translation (1980) by Cambridge University Press in the Rose Monograph series of the American Sociological Association.
- He later studied with Richard Rorty and Edward Shils.
- He began his long affiliation with the University of South Florida in 1975.
- In 1987 Turner was appointed Graduate Research Professor in Sociology; since 1989 he has held the same title, now Distinguished University Professor, but in Philosophy.
- He has had visiting appointments at Virginia Tech, the University of Notre Dame, and Boston University.
- He is on the editorial board of some 15 journals, and is the longest serving "Collaborating Editor" of Social Studies of Science.
