David Gooding

David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947 - 13 December 2009) was Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Director of the Science Studies Centre, at the University of Bath, UK .^[1] He was President of the History of Science Section of the BAAS (2002–2003).

For over 30 years Gooding wrote and lectured on the role of visualisation, inference, communication, creativity and human agency in the sciences and was a specialist on the life and work of Michael Faraday. During 2002-2003 he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for research on Visualisation in the Sciences. From 1991 to 1993 he held a Research Leave Fellowship from the MRC-ESRC-SERC (Joint Research Councils Initiative on HCI-Cognitive Science) for research on Simulating Natural Intelligence.^[2]

Gooding’s work is characterised by a multi-disciplinary approach, combining perspectives and methods from different fields including philosophy, history, sociology, art and cognitive psychology. Gooding‘s notion of Construal is of key importance to the field of Empirical Modelling within Computer Science.^[3]

Selected Works

Books

• Scientific and Technological Thinking, co-edited with M. Gorman, R. Tweney and A. Kincannon, Erlbaum 2005, ISBN 0805845291. 368 pages
• Michael Faraday, co-authored with G.N.Cantor and F. James, Prometheus Books, 1996, ISBN 157392556X. 111 pages
• Experiment and the Making of Meaning Kluwer, 1990, paperback edition 1994, ISBN 0792307194. 310 pages
• Michael Faraday’s ‘Chemical Notes, Hints and Suggestions and Objects of Pursuit’ of 1822, co-edited with R.Tweney, IET, 1991, ISBN 0863412556. 152 pages
• The Uses of Experiment, co-edited with T. Pinch and S. Schaffer, Cambridge, 1989, ISBN 0521337682. 481 pages
• Faraday Rediscovered, co-edited with F. James, Macmillan/American Institute of Physics/Humanities Press, 1985, ISBN 0333393201. 258 pages

Articles and Book Chapters

• “Visualising Scientific Inference” in Topics in Cognitive Science, Vol. 2, 2009 pp15–35
• authored with Tom Addis “Simulation methods for an abductive system in science”, Foundations of Science’ 13, 2008, pp. 37–52.
• “Envisioning Explanation - The Art in Science”, in Bernard Frischer and Anastasia Kakouri-Hild, editors, Beyond Illustration: 2D and 3D Digital Technologies as Tools for Discovery in Archaeology, Oxford: Archaeopress (British Archaeological Reports Series) / Washington, D.C.:American Council of Learned Societies (Humanities E-Book); 2008, pp. 9–28. First published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews (special issue on Scientific Illustration),2004, vol. 29: 278- 294. ISSN 0308-0188
• “Visual Cognition: Where Cognition and Culture Meet”, Philosophy of Science, 73 (5): 688-698. 2006. ISSN 0031-8248
• “From Phenomenology to Field Theory: Faraday’s Visual Reasoning”, Perspectives on Science, 14 (1): 40-65. 2006
• "Seeing the Forest for the Trees: Visualization, Cognition and Scientific Inference", in Gorman, M. et al., editors, Scientific and Technological Thinking, pp. 173–218, Mahwah, N.J.: Erlbaum, 2005
• "Cognition, Construction and Culture: visual theories in the sciences", Journal of Cognition and Culture, (special issue on Cognitive Anthropology of Science), 4: 551-594. (ISSN 1567-7095), 2004
• "Visualization, Inference and Explanation in the Sciences", in G. Malcolm, editor, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Visual Representations and Interpretations, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2004, pp. 1-26, ISBN 0-444-51463-5
• "Narrowing the Cognitive Span: experimentation, visualisation and digitalisation", in Radder, H., ed., Scientific Experimentation and its Philosophical Significance, Pittsburg: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003, pp. 369-405
• "Experiment as an Instrument of Innovation: Experience and Embodied Thought", in M Beynon et. al., eds, Cognitive Technology: Instruments of Mind Heidelberg: Springer, 2001, pp.130-140 ISBN 3-540-42406-7
• "Experiment", in W. Newton-Smith, ed., A Companion to the Philosophy of Science, Oxford: Blackwells, 2000, pp. 117-126, ISBN 0631230203
• "Thought Experiment", in E. Craig, ed.,The Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, London: Routlege, vol. 9, 1999, pp. 392–397, ISBN 0415223644

References

1. ^ Tweney, Ryan (2010). "David Charles Gooding, 1947-2009". ISIS 101:3: 607–609. 
2. ^ , Social Psychology Network, 2008-01-16, http://gooding.socialpsychology.org/ 
3. ^ , M. Beynon, 2010-04-07, http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/research/em/wj_re_em/construalgooding/ 

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Name	Gooding, David
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Date of birth	21 November 1947
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Date of death	13 December 2009
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