David Charles Gooding was Professor of History and Philosophy of Science and Director of the Science Studies Centre, at the University of Bath

University of Bath

The University of Bath is a campus university located in Bath, United Kingdom. It received its Royal Charter in 1966....

, UK . 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

Michael Faraday

Michael Faraday, FRS was an English chemist and physicist who contributed to the fields of electromagnetism and electrochemistry....

. During 2002-2003 he held a Leverhulme

Leverhulme Trust

The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the First Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, with the instruction that its resources should be used to support "scholarships for the purposes of research and education."...

 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.

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.

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
  Geoffrey Cantor
  Geoffrey N. Cantor is emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at the University of Leeds and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Science & Technology Studies at University College, London....
  
   and F. James, Prometheus Books
  Prometheus Books
  Prometheus Books is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by Paul Kurtz, who also founded the Council for Secular Humanism and co-founded the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. He is currently the chairman of all three organizations. Prometheus Books publishes a range of books, including many...
  
  , 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
  Institution of Engineering and Technology
  The Institution of Engineering and Technology is a British professional body for those working in engineering and technology in the United Kingdom and worldwide. It was formed in 2006 from two separate institutions: the Institution of Electrical Engineers , dating back to 1871, and the...
  
  , 1991, ISBN 0863412556. 152 pages
• The Uses of Experiment, co-edited with T. Pinch
  Trevor Pinch
  Trevor J. Pinch is a sociologist and former chair of the Science and Technology Studies department at Cornell University.Pinch has a degree in Physics from the Imperial College London and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bath...
  
   and S. Schaffer
  Simon Schaffer
  Simon Schaffer . He is a professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University and was until recently editor of The British Journal for the History of Science.-Life:Schaffer was born in Southampton and attended Varndean...
  
  , 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
  William Newton-Smith
  William Herbert Newton-Smith is an Anglo-Canadian philosopher of science.His undergraduate degree from Queen's University was in Mathematics and Philosophy, in 1966. He took an MA from Cornell University in Philosophy, in 1968, and a DPhil in philosophy from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1974...
  
  , 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