David C. Gooding
IN MEMORIAM
After a long period of illness, Professor David Gooding died of cancer on December 13, 2009. Social Psychology Network is maintaining this profile for visitors who wish to learn more about Professor Gooding's work.
Please see below for more information:
- Obituary: David Charles Gooding (1947–2009) (Social Studies of Science)
- David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947–13 December 2009) (British Journal for the History of Science)
- Eloge: David Charles Gooding, 1947–2009 (ISIS: A Journal of the History of Science Society)
David Gooding is Director of the Science Studies Centre of the University of Bath and Director of Studies of the MSc in Science, Culture and Communication. During 2002-2003 he held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for research on visualization in the sciences and from 1991-1993 he was a Medical Research Council Research Fellow for a project on Simulating Natural Intelligence. His main research interests are visualization and visual inference, science communication, agent-based simulation of scientific discovery, and the history of experiment in the sciences.
Primary Interests:
- Communication, Language
- Interpersonal Processes
- Judgment and Decision Making
- Social Cognition
Research Group or Laboratory:
- Science Studies Centre
Books:
- Gooding, D. C. (1990). Experiment and the making of meaning- Human agency in scientific observation and experiment. Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
- Gooding, D. C., Gorman, M., Tweney, R., & Kincannon, A. (Eds.). (2005). Scientific and technological thinking. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Journal Articles:
- David C. Gooding. (1992). What is Experimental about Thought Experiments? Philosophy of Science, no. 2, 280-290.
- Gooding, D. C. (2011). Scientific discovery as creative exploration: Faraday's experiments. Creativity Research Journal, 9(2-3), 189-205.
- Gooding, D. C. (2010). Visualizing scientific inference. Topics in cognitive science. 2(1).
- Gooding, D. C. (2006). From phenomenology to field theory: Faraday’s visual reasoning. Perspectives on Science, 14, 40-65.
- Gooding, D. C. (2006). Visual cognition: Where cognition and culture meet. Philosophy of Science, 73(5), 688-698.
- Gooding, D. C. (2004). Cognition, construction and culture: Visual theories in the sciences. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 4, 551-594.
- Gooding, D. C. (2004). Envisioning explanations: The art in science. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 29(3), 278-294.
- Gooding, D. C., & Addis, T. R. (2008). Modelling experiments as mediating models. Foundations of Science, 13, in press.
- Gooding, D. C., & Addis, T. R. (2008). Simulation methods for an abductive system in science. Foundations of Science, 13, in press.
Other Publications:
- Gooding, D. C. (2005). Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualization, cognition and scientific inference. In M. Gorman et. al. (Eds.), Scientific and technological thinking (pp. 173-218). Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
- Gooding, D. C. (2004). Visualization, inference and explanation in the sciences. In G. Malcolm (Ed.), Multidisciplinary approaches to visual representations and interpretations (pp. 1-26). Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Gooding, D. C. (2003). Varying the cognitive span: Experimentation, visualisation and digitalisation. In H. Radder (Ed.), Scientific experimentation and its philosophical significance (pp. 369-405). Pittsburg, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press.
- Gooding, D. C. (2001). Experiment as an instrument of innovation: Experience and embodied thought. In M. Benyon (Ed.), Cognitive technology: Instruments of mind (pp.130-140). Heidelberg, Germany: Springer.
Courses Taught:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cultures of Belief
- Measurement and Meaning
- Public Knowledge
- Seeing Socially: Simulating Communication and Inference about Experience