Experiment and the Making of Meaning Human Agency in Scientific Observation and Experiment

'The main argument of this important book is designed to put human agency at the centre of any account one could give of the way scientific knowledge is produced. ' Rom Harré in European Journal of Physics, 13 (1992) 'We are in danger of misunderstanding and unnecessarily devaluing the recent achievements of our culture. David Gooding's work has pried open the black box and found inside the basis for not only a more complete picture of science, but for a more balanced image of its achievement and a saner assessment of the authority we should acknowledge it to possess. ' Jim Tiles in British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 45 (1994) ' I highly recommend it to anyone who takes seriously Imre Lakatos's paraphrase of Kant that 'philosophy of science without history of science is empty, history of science without philosophy is blind.' ' Allan Franklin in ISIS, 83:1 (1992)Gooding, David is the author of 'Experiment and the Making of Meaning Human Agency in Scientific Observation and Experiment' with ISBN 9780792307198 and ISBN 0792307194.