David Gooding
Biographic Data
| ID | 557018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Gooding |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Gooding |
| SIGNATURE | GOODING D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Visual Cognition: Where Cognition and Culture Meet
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 interpreta…
Cognition, Construction and Culture: Visual Theories in the Sciences
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 …
Envisioning explanations – the art in science
Visualisation involves making and manipulating images that convey novel phenomena, ideas and meanings. It is central to the intellectual objectives of almost every area of science. It is therefore surprising that we still lack an understanding of how visual thinking works. Examples from different sciences illustrate how scientists interpret and explain phenomena by actively manipulating those patternlike features of the world that lend themselves…
What can particle physicists count on
Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics . Jed Z. Buchwald
Scientific Discovery as Creative Exploration: Faraday's Experiments
Scientific Discovery as Creative Exploration: Faraday's Experiments
In this article, I address the distance between historical and psychological approaches to creativity (particularly cognitive approaches). I argue that neither can get very far without the other, and I offer examples from the creative work of Michael Faraday, the eminent 19th-century physicist. These examples display similarities between fine detail of Faraday's creative work and the broad sweep of his development and illustrate the tension betwe…
Imaginary Science
Re-presenting Faraday
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The Rediscovery of the Mind . John R. Searle
Experiment and the Making of Meaning: Human Agency in Scientific Observation and Experiment
Mapping Experiment as a Learning Process: How the First Electromagnetic Motor Was Invented
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 inve…
How to be a good empiricist
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How do scientists reach agreement about novel observations
Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories . Nancy J. Nersessian
Faraday Rediscovered
Cockroft and the Atom . Guy Hartcup , T. E. Allibone
‘He who proves, discovers’: John Herschel, William Pepys and the Faraday effect
On 8 November 1845 the ‘Weekly Gossip’ column of the Athenaeum began with the following report: Mr Faraday, on Monday, announced, at a meeting of the Council of the Royal Institution, a very remarkable discovery; which appears to connect the imponderable agencies yet closer together, if it does not indeed prove that Light, Heat and Electricity are merely modifications of one great universal principle. This discovery is, that a beam of polarized l…
Experiment and concept formation in electromagnetic science and technology in England in the 1820s
This paper argues that early experimental investigations of electromagnetism were an important resource for later conceptual innovations in electromagnetic science and technology, and explores some implications of this fact. Retrospective judgements about the 'scientific' or 'technological' identity of techniques and instruments are set aside so that they may be recognized as integral to the exploratory work that produced theories and technologie…
A convergence of opinion on the divergence of lines: Faraday and Thomson’s discussion of diamagnetism
The number of scientists actively extending the frontiers of knowledge has always been small compared to the number engaged in what Kuhn called ‘normal science’. Many of Faraday’s contemporaries shared his interest in the relationship between electric, magnetic, and other forces. A few, such as Joule and Pliicker, were quick to take up the results reported in his Experimental Researches in Electricity. When we turn to the theoretical interpretati…
Empiricism in Practice: Teleology, Economy, and Observation in Faraday's Physics
Metaphysics versus measurement: The conversion and conservation of force in Faraday's physics
Faraday'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 …
Faraday, Thomson, and the Concept of the Magnetic Field
In June 1849 William Thomson (Later Lord Kelvin) 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 th…
The Concept of Matter in Modern Philosophy. Ernan McMullin
Conceptual and experimental bases of Faraday's denial of electrostatic action at a distance
Mapping Experiment as a Learning Process: How the First Electromagnetic Motor Was Invented
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 inve…
Empiricism in Practice: Teleology, Economy, and Observation in Faraday's Physics
Imaginary Science
Envisioning explanations – the art in science
Visualisation involves making and manipulating images that convey novel phenomena, ideas and meanings. It is central to the intellectual objectives of almost every area of science. It is therefore surprising that we still lack an understanding of how visual thinking works. Examples from different sciences illustrate how scientists interpret and explain phenomena by actively manipulating those patternlike features of the world that lend themselves…
Metaphysics versus measurement: The conversion and conservation of force in Faraday's physics
Faraday'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 …
Cognition, Construction and Culture: Visual Theories in the Sciences
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 …
How do scientists reach agreement about novel observations
Conceptual and experimental bases of Faraday's denial of electrostatic action at a distance
Visual Cognition: Where Cognition and Culture Meet
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 interpreta…
A convergence of opinion on the divergence of lines: Faraday and Thomson’s discussion of diamagnetism
The number of scientists actively extending the frontiers of knowledge has always been small compared to the number engaged in what Kuhn called ‘normal science’. Many of Faraday’s contemporaries shared his interest in the relationship between electric, magnetic, and other forces. A few, such as Joule and Pliicker, were quick to take up the results reported in his Experimental Researches in Electricity. When we turn to the theoretical interpretati…
Energy: Historical Development of the Concept . R. Bruce Lindsay
Conceptual and experimental bases of Faraday's denial of electrostatic action at a distance
Metaphysics versus measurement: The conversion and conservation of force in Faraday's physics
Faraday'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 …
Faraday, Thomson, and the Concept of the Magnetic Field
In June 1849 William Thomson (Later Lord Kelvin) 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 th…
The Concept of Matter in Modern Philosophy. Ernan McMullin
A convergence of opinion on the divergence of lines: Faraday and Thomson’s discussion of diamagnetism
The number of scientists actively extending the frontiers of knowledge has always been small compared to the number engaged in what Kuhn called ‘normal science’. Many of Faraday’s contemporaries shared his interest in the relationship between electric, magnetic, and other forces. A few, such as Joule and Pliicker, were quick to take up the results reported in his Experimental Researches in Electricity. When we turn to the theoretical interpretati…
Empiricism in Practice: Teleology, Economy, and Observation in Faraday's Physics
Faraday Rediscovered
Cockroft and the Atom . Guy Hartcup , T. E. Allibone
‘He who proves, discovers’: John Herschel, William Pepys and the Faraday effect
On 8 November 1845 the ‘Weekly Gossip’ column of the Athenaeum began with the following report: Mr Faraday, on Monday, announced, at a meeting of the Council of the Royal Institution, a very remarkable discovery; which appears to connect the imponderable agencies yet closer together, if it does not indeed prove that Light, Heat and Electricity are merely modifications of one great universal principle. This discovery is, that a beam of polarized l…
Experiment and concept formation in electromagnetic science and technology in England in the 1820s
This paper argues that early experimental investigations of electromagnetism were an important resource for later conceptual innovations in electromagnetic science and technology, and explores some implications of this fact. Retrospective judgements about the 'scientific' or 'technological' identity of techniques and instruments are set aside so that they may be recognized as integral to the exploratory work that produced theories and technologie…
How do scientists reach agreement about novel observations
Faraday to Einstein: Constructing Meaning in Scientific Theories . Nancy J. Nersessian
How to be a good empiricist
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Experiment and the Making of Meaning: Human Agency in Scientific Observation and Experiment
Mapping Experiment as a Learning Process: How the First Electromagnetic Motor Was Invented
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 inve…
Imaginary Science
Re-presenting Faraday
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
The Rediscovery of the Mind . John R. Searle
Scientific Discovery as Creative Exploration: Faraday's Experiments
Scientific Discovery as Creative Exploration: Faraday's Experiments
In this article, I address the distance between historical and psychological approaches to creativity (particularly cognitive approaches). I argue that neither can get very far without the other, and I offer examples from the creative work of Michael Faraday, the eminent 19th-century physicist. These examples display similarities between fine detail of Faraday's creative work and the broad sweep of his development and illustrate the tension betwe…
Scientific Practice: Theories and Stories of Doing Physics . Jed Z. Buchwald
What can particle physicists count on
Cognition, Construction and Culture: Visual Theories in the Sciences
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 …
Envisioning explanations – the art in science
Visualisation involves making and manipulating images that convey novel phenomena, ideas and meanings. It is central to the intellectual objectives of almost every area of science. It is therefore surprising that we still lack an understanding of how visual thinking works. Examples from different sciences illustrate how scientists interpret and explain phenomena by actively manipulating those patternlike features of the world that lend themselves…
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