David Charles Gooding (21 November 1947 – 13 December 2009) was a Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, and the Director of the Science Studies Centre, at the University of Bath, UK .
[1] 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.
[2] 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.