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    The Uses of Experiment: Studies in the Natural Sciences.David Gooding, Trevor Pinch & Simon Schaffer - 1989 - Cambridge University Press. Edited by David Gooding, Trevor Pinch & Simon Schaffer.
    Contributors; Preface; Introduction; Part I. Instruments in Experiments: 1. Scientific instruments: models of brass and aids to discovery; 2. Glass works: Newton’s prisms and the uses of experiment; 3. A viol of water or a wedge of glass; Part II. Experiment and Argument: 4. Galileo’s experimental discourse; 5. Fresnel, Poisson and the white spot: the role of successful predictions in the acceptance of scientific theories; 6. The rhetoric of experiment; Part III. Representing and Realising: 7. ’Magnetic curves’ and the magnetic (...)
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  2. The Uses of Experiment.David Gooding, Trevor Pinch & Simon Schaffer - 1992 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 43 (1):99-109.
  3. Experiment Right or Wrong.Allan Franklin & David Gooding - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1):341-352.
     
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  4. What is Experimental about Thought Experiments?David C. Gooding - 1992 - PSA: Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Philosophy of Science Association 1992:280 - 290.
    I argue that thought experiments are a form of experimental reasoning similar to real experiments. They require the same ability to participate by following a narrative as real experiments do. Participation depends in turn on using what we already know to visualize, manipulate and understand what is unfamiliar or problematic. I defend the claim that visualization requires embodiment by an example which shows how tacit understanding of the properties of represented objects and relations enables us to work out how such (...)
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    (2 other versions)How do Scientists Reach Agreement about Novel Observations?David Gooding - 1986 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 17 (2):205.
    I outline a pragmatic view of scientists' use of observation which draws attention to non-discursive, instrumental and social contexts of observation, in order to explain scientists' agreement about the appearance and significance of new phenomena. I argue that: observation is embedded in a network of activities, techniques, and interests; that experimentalists make construals of new phenomena which enable them communicate exploratory techniques and their outcomes, and that empirical enquiry consists of communicative, exploratory and predictive strategies whose interdependence ensures that, notwithstanding (...)
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    Empiricism in Practice: Teleology, Economy, and Observation in Faraday's Physics.David Gooding - 1982 - Isis 73 (1):46-67.
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    Visualizing Scientific Inference.David C. Gooding - 2010 - Topics in Cognitive Science 2 (1):15-35.
    The sciences use a wide range of visual devices, practices, and imaging technologies. This diversity points to an important repertoire of visual methods that scientists use to adapt representations to meet the varied demands that their work places on cognitive processes. This paper identifies key features of the use of visualization in a range of scientific domains and considers the implications of this repertoire for understanding scientists as cognitive agents.
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    Cognition, Construction and Culture: Visual Theories in the Sciences.David Gooding - 2004 - Journal of Cognition and Culture 4 (3-4):551-593.
    This paper presents a study of the generation, manipulation and use of visual representations in different episodes of scientific discovery. The study identifies a common set of transformations of visual representations underlying the distinctive methods and imagery of different scientific fields. The existence of common features behind the diversity of visual representations suggests a common dynamical structure for visual thinking, showing how visual representations facilitate cognitive processes such as pattern-matching and visual inference through the use of tools, technologies and other (...)
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  9. The Procedural Turn; or, Why Do Thought Experiments Work?David Gooding - 1992 - In R. Giere & H. Feigl (eds.), Cognitive Models of Science. University of Minnesota Press. pp. 45-76.
     
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    Mapping Experiment as a Learning Process: How the First Electromagnetic Motor Was Invented.David Gooding - 1990 - Science, Technology and Human Values 15 (2):165-201.
    Narrative accounts misrepresent discovery by reconstructing worlds ordered by success rather than the world as explored. Such worlds rarely contain the personal knowledge that informed actual exploration and experiment. This article describes an attempt to recover situated learning in a material environment, tracing the discovery of the first electromagnetic motor by Michael Faraday in September 1821 to show how he modeled new experience and invented procedures to communicate that novelty. The author introduces a notation to map experiment as an active (...)
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    From phenomenology to field theory: Faraday's visual reasoning.David C. Gooding - 2006 - Perspectives on Science 14 (1):40-65.
    : Faraday is often described as an experimentalist, but his work is a dialectical interplay of concrete objects, visual images, abstract, theoretically-informed visual models and metaphysical precepts. From phenomena described in terms of patterns formed by lines of force he created a general explanation of space-filling systems of force which obey both empirical laws and principles of conservation and economy. I argue that Faraday's articulation of situated experience via visual models into a theory capable of verbal expression owed much to (...)
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  12. The Future of Cognitive Studies of Science and Technology.Michael E. Gorman, Ryan D. Tweney, David C. Gooding & Alexandra P. Kincannon - 2005 - In M. Gorman, R. Tweney, D. Gooding & A. Kincannon (eds.), Scientific and Technological Thinking. Erlbaum.
     
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    Creative Rationality: towards an Abductive Model of Scientific Change.David Gooding - 1996 - Philosophica 58 (2).
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    Metaphysics versus measurement: The conversion and conservation of force in Faraday's physics.David Gooding - 1980 - Annals of Science 37 (1):1-29.
    SummaryFaraday's concept of force is described by six assumptions. These specify a concept that is quite distinct from ‘mechanical’ conceptions of his contemporaries and interpreters. Analysis of the role of these assumptions clarifies Faraday's weighting of experimental evidence and shows how closely-linked Faraday's chemistry and physics were to his theology. It is argued that Faraday was unable to secularize his concept of force by breaking the ties between his physics and his theology of nature. Examination of his basic assumptions also (...)
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    Visual cognition: Where cognition and culture meet.David C. Gooding - 2006 - Philosophy of Science 73 (5):688-698.
    Case studies of diverse scientific fields show how scientists use a range of resources to generate new interpretative models and to establish their plausibility as explanations of a domain. They accomplish this by manipulating imagistic representations in particular ways. I show that scientists in different domains use the same basic transformations. Common features of these transformations indicate that general cognitive strategies of interpretation, simplification, elaboration, and argumentation are at work. Social and historical studies of science emphasize the diversity of local (...)
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  16. Seeing the forest for the trees: Visualization, cognition, and scientific inference.David C. Gooding - 2005 - In M. Gorman, R. Tweney, D. Gooding & A. Kincannon (eds.), Scientific and Technological Thinking. Erlbaum. pp. 2005--173.
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    Conceptual and Experimental Bases of Faraday's Denial of Electrostatic Action at a Distance.David Gooding - 1978 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 9 (2):117.
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    Faraday, Thomson, and the Concept of the Magnetic Field.David Gooding - 1980 - British Journal for the History of Science 13 (2):91-120.
    In June 1849 William Thomson wrote to Michael Faraday suggesting that the concept of a uniform magnetic field could be used to predict the motions of small magnetic and diamagnetic bodies. In his letter Thomson showed how Faraday's lines of magnetic force could represent the effect of the ‘conducting power’ for magnetic force of matter in the region of magnets. This was Thomson's extension to magnetism of an analogy between the mathematical descriptions of the distribution of static electricity and of (...)
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    Theory and observation: The experimental nexus.David Gooding - 1990 - International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 4 (2):131 – 148.
    Abstract Philosophical discussions of experiment usually focus exclusively on testing predictions. In this paper I compare G. Morpurgo's experimental test of the Gell?Mann/ Zweig quark hypothesis with two neglected uses of experiment: constructing representations of new phenomena and inventing the instruments that produce such phenomena. These roles are illustrated by J. B. Biot's 1821 observations of electromagnetism and by Michael Faraday's invention of the first electromagnetic motor, also in 1821. The comparison identifies similarities between observation and experiment, showing how both (...)
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    Experiment.David C. Gooding - 2000 - In W. Newton-Smith (ed.), A companion to the philosophy of science. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 117–126.
    There have been many images of experiment. The contemplative narratives of Aristotle served to illustrate hypotheses and arguments. There was no expectation that they be performed. Even in Galileo's dialogues, the distinction between real experiments and imaginary ones is not sharp (see galileo). During the seventeenth century, performance and public description became essential to the probative power of experiment. These made its methods and procedures transparent, allowing any reader of the narrative to be a virtual witness of an active demonstration (...)
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    Esperimento e realismo scientifico: saggio su David Gooding.Marco Buzzoni & David Gooding - 2001 - Napoli: Loffredo. Edited by David Gooding.
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    Cockroft and the AtomGuy Hartcup T. E. Allibone.David Gooding - 1985 - Isis 76 (4):610-611.
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    Energy: Historical Development of the ConceptR. Bruce Lindsay.David Gooding - 1977 - Isis 68 (3):464-465.
  24. Faraday and the Powers of Matter: The Role of Principles, Hypotheses, and the Interpretation of Experiment in the Development of Faraday's Field Theory, as Presented in His Experimental Researches in Electricity, 1830-1855.David C. Gooding - 1975
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    Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific TheoriesNancy J. Nersessian.David Gooding - 1986 - Isis 77 (3):521-523.
  26. Review of U nderstanding Philosophy of Science.David Gooding - 2003 - Philosophical Books 44 (3):291-291.
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    Re-presenting Faraday.David Gooding - 1994 - British Journal for the History of Science 27 (3):361-364.
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    Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics. Jed Z. Buchwald.David Gooding - 1997 - Isis 88 (1):121-122.
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    The Concept of Matter in Modern PhilosophyErnan McMullin.David Gooding - 1980 - Isis 71 (3):486-486.
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    The Rediscovery of the Mind. John R. Searle.David Gooding - 1994 - Isis 85 (2):362-363.
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    What can particle physicists count on?David Gooding, William J. McKinney, Harry M. Marks, Jeff Hughes & Alan Chalmers - 1999 - Metascience 8 (3):356-392.
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  32. Imaginary science. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (4):1029-1045.
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    Review: Imaginary Science. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (4):1029 - 1045.
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    How to Be a Good Empiricist. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1989 - British Journal for the History of Science 22 (4):419-427.
  35. Reviews : Charles Bazerman, Shaping Written Knowledge: the Genre and Activity of the Experimental Article in Science, Madison, Wisc./London: University of Wisconsin Press, 1988, $40.00, paper $17.50, xii + 356 pp. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1990 - History of the Human Sciences 3 (3):474-478.
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    Carl Gustaf Bernhard, Elisabeth Crawford and Per Sörbom , Science, Technology and Society in the Time of Alfred Nobel. Oxford and New York: Pergamon Press , 1982. Pp. xvii + 426. £29.75, $59.50. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1985 - British Journal for the History of Science 18 (2):239-240.
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    (1 other version)Davis Baird, thing knowledge: A philosophy of scientific instruments. Berkeley and London: University of california press, 2004. Pp. XXI+273. Isbn 0-520-23249-6. £42.95, $65.00 . Allan Franklin, selectivity and discord: Two problems of experiment. Pittsburgh: University of pittsburgh press, 2002. Pp. IX+290. Isbn 0-8229-4191-0. £31.50. [REVIEW]David C. Gooding - 2006 - British Journal for the History of Science 39 (4):598-599.
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    General Natural Order: Historical Studies of Scientific Culture. Edited by Barry Barnes and Steven Shapin. London and Beverly Hills: Sage, 1979. pp. 225. £10.00/£4.25. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1981 - British Journal for the History of Science 14 (1):84-86.
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    (1 other version)Hanne Andersen ;, Peter Barker ;, Xiang Chen. The Cognitive Structure of Scientific Revolutions. xv + 199 pp., figs., bibl., index. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Can $70. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 2008 - Isis 99 (3):661-662.
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    Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries James Prescott Joule and the Concept of Energy. By Henry John Steffens. New York: Science History Publications; Folkestone: Dawson, 1979. Pp. x + 172. $20.00/£ 10.00. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1981 - British Journal for the History of Science 14 (2):217-219.
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    Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Fields of Force. The Development of a World View from Faraday to Einstein. By William Berkson. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. Pp. xiii + 370. £6.50. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1975 - British Journal for the History of Science 8 (1):89-91.
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    Nancy J. Nersessian, . The Process of Science. Contemporary Philosophical Approaches to Understanding Scientific Practice. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 1987. Pp. xiv + 221. ISBN 90-247-3425-8. DFl.135.00, £47.50, $59.50. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1988 - British Journal for the History of Science 21 (2):254-255.
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    Nathan Reingold , The Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 3: January 1836—December 1837, The Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979. Pp. xxxiv + 585. $30. - Nathan Reingold , The Papers of Joseph Henry, volume 4: January 1838—December 1840, The Princeton Years. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1981. Pp. xxxiv + 475. $30. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1985 - British Journal for the History of Science 18 (1):113-114.
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    Science and Society Rom Harré. Great scientific experiments: 20 experiments that changed our view of the world. Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1981. Pp. 224. £8.95. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1983 - British Journal for the History of Science 16 (3):313-314.
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    The Demon in the Aether: The Story of James Clerk Maxwell by Martin Goldman. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1985 - Isis 76:281-281.
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    The New Physics Loyd S. Swenson Jr, Genesis of relativity: Einstein in context. New York: Burt Franklin & Co., 1979. pp. xvi + 266. $21.00. [REVIEW]David Gooding - 1982 - British Journal for the History of Science 15 (2):199-200.