David Gooding Explained

David Gooding
Birth Name:	David Charles Gooding
Birth Date:	1947 11, df=y
Nationality:	British
Institutions:	Science Studies Centre, University of Bath
Main Interests:	History and philosophy of Science
Influences:	Michael Faraday

David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947 – 13 December 2009) was a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, and the 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).

Career

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

• Book: Gooding . David . James . Frank A. J. L. . Faraday rediscovered: essays on the life and work of Michael Faraday, 1791–1867 . Macmillan Press Stockton Press . Basingstoke, Hants, England New York City . 1985 . 9780333393208 .
• Book: Gooding . David . Pinch . Trevor . Schaffer . Simon . Trevor Pinch . Simon Schaffer . The uses of experiment: studies in the natural sciences . Cambridge University Press . Cambridge England New York . 1989 . 9780521337687 .
• Book: Gooding . David . Tweney . Ryan D. . Michael Faraday's 'Chemical notes, hints, suggestions, and objects of pursuit' of 1822 . . London . 1991 . 9780863412554 .
• Book: Gooding, David . Experiment and the making of meaning: human agency in scientific observation and experiment . Kluwer Academic Publishers . Dordrecht, Netherlands . 1990 . 9780792307198 .
• Book: Gooding . David . Cantor . Geoffrey . James . Frank A. J. L. . Geoffrey Cantor . Michael Faraday . Humanity Books . Amherst, New York . 1996 . 9781573925563 .
• Book: Gooding . David C. . Tweney . Ryan D. . Gorman . Michael E. . Kincannon . Alexandra P. . Scientific and technological thinking . L. Erlbaum . Mahwah, New Jersey . 2005 . 9780805845297 .

Journal articles

• Gooding . David C. . Cognition, construction and culture: visual theories in the sciences . Journal of Cognition and Culture . 4 . 3 . 551–593 . 10.1163/1568537042484896 . 2004 . 10.1.1.105.1923 .
• Gooding . David C. . Envisioning explanations – the art in science . Interdisciplinary Science Reviews . 29 . 3 . 278–294 . 10.1179/030801804225018792 . September 2004 . 31921171 .
• Gooding . David C. . From phenomenology to field theory: Faraday's visual reasoning . . 14 . 1 . 40–65 . 10.1162/posc.2006.14.1.40 . Spring 2006 . 10.1.1.137.9642 . 15515015 .
• Gooding . David C. . Visual cognition: where cognition and culture meet . Philosophy of Science . 73 . 5 . 688–698 . 10.1086/518523 . December 2006 . 59195373 .
• Gooding . David C. . Addis . Tom R. . Simulation methods for an abductive system in science . Foundations of Science . 13 . 1 . 37–52 . 10.1007/s10699-007-9113-8 . March 2008 . 62165475 .
• Gooding . David C. . Visualizing scientific inference . Topics in Cognitive Science . 2 . 1 . 15–35 . 10.1111/j.1756-8765.2009.01048.x . 25163619 . January 2010 . free .

Notes and References

1. Tweney . Ryan D. . Eloge: David Charles Gooding, 1947–2009 . . 101 . 3 . 607–609 . 10.1086/657172 . September 2010 . 21077559 . 43895134 .
2. Web site: David C. Gooding (biography) . Social Psychology Network. 16 January 2008 .
3. Book: Gooding, David . Experiment and the making of meaning: human agency in scientific observation and experiment . Kluwer Academic Publishers . Dordrecht, Netherlands . 1990 . 9780792307198 . Excerpt: David Gooding's notion of construal, Department of Computer Science, University of Warwick.