Professor Harry Collins

Teams and roles for Harry Collins

Emeritus Professor
School of Social Sciences

I am a Professor of Social Sciences and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2012. I have written for over 30 years on the sociology of gravitational wave physics.

2019

Collins, H. et al. 2019. Bonfire Night and Burns Night: Using the Imitation Game to research English and Scottish identities. In: Caudill, D. S. et al., The Third Wave in Science and Technology Studies: Future Research Directions on Expertise and Experience. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. , pp.109-131. (10.1007/978-3-030-14335-0_7)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2019. Populism and science. Epistemology & Philosophy of Science 56 (4), pp.200-218. (10.5840/eps201956476)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2019. Studies of expertise and experience: a sociological perspective on expertise. In: Ward, P. et al., The Oxford Handbook of Expertise. Oxford Handbooks Online(10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198795872.013.4)
Evans, R. et al. 2019. Groups and individuals: conformity and diversity in the performance of gendered identities. British Journal of Sociology 70 (4), pp.1561-1581. (10.1111/1468-4446.12507)
Evans, R. , Collins, H. and Weinel, M. 2019. Imitation Game. In: Atkinson, P. et al., SAGE Research Methods Foundations. Sage. , pp.1-23.

2018

Collins, H. 2018. Are experts right or are they members of expert groups?. Social Epistemology 32 (6), pp.351-357. (10.1080/02691728.2018.1546346)
Collins, H. 2018. Gravitational waves and scientific realism. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 9 (1), pp.38-41. (10.4245/sponge.v9i1.27042)
Collins, H. 2018. Studies of expertise and experience. Topoi 37 (1), pp.67-77. (10.1007/s11245-016-9412-1)
Collins, H. 2018. Artifictional intelligence: against humanity's surrender to computers. Cambridge: Polity Press.

2017

Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2017. A general theory of the use of technology in sport and some consequences. In: Schulenkorf, N. and Frawley, S. eds. Critical Issues in Global Sport Management. Routledge. , pp.219-237.
Collins, H. , Evans, R. and Higgins, C. 2017. Bad call: Technology's attack on referees and umpires and how to fix it. MIT Press.
Collins, H. , Evans, R. and Weinel, M. 2017. Interactional expertise. In: Felt, U. et al., Handbook of Scinece and Technology Studies (4th Edition). MIT Press. , pp.765-792.
Collins, H. M. , Reyes-Galindo, L. and Ginsparg, P. 2017. A note concerning primary source knowledge. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 68 (5), pp.1105-1110. (10.1002/asi.23753)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2017. The bearing of studies of expertise and experience on ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry 23 (6), pp.445-451.
Collins, H. M. , Evans, R. J. and Weinel, M. 2017. STS as science or politics. Social Studies of Science 47 (4), pp.580-586. (10.1177/0306312717710131)
Collins, H. 2017. Gravity's kiss: the detection of gravitational waves. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Collins, H. , Bartlett, A. and Reyes Galindo, L. 2017. Demarcating fringe science for policy. Perspectives on Science 25 (4), pp.411-438. (10.1162/POSC_a_00248)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2017. Probes, surveys, and the ontology of the social. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11 (3), pp.328-341. (10.1177/1558689815619825)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2017. Why democracies need science. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity Press.
Collins, H. et al. 2017. The Imitation Game and the nature of mixed methods. Journal of Mixed Methods Research 11 (4), pp.510-527. (10.1177/1558689815619824)

2016

Collins, H. 2016. An Imitation Game concerning gravitational wave physics. [Online].arXiv. Available at: http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.07373.
Collins, H. 2016. Collectivities and tacit knowledge. Social Epistemology 5 (4), pp.26-28.
Collins, H. 2016. Knowledge as it says on the tin: response to Moodey. Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 5 (7), pp.50-51.
Collins, H. 2016. Social construction of reality. Human Studies 39 (1), pp.161-165. (10.1007/s10746-016-9388-2)
Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2016. A thousand words is worth a picture. Social Studies of Science 46 (2), pp.312-324. (10.1177/0306312716637437)
Collins, H. , Leonard-Clarke, W. and O'Mahoney, H. 2016. Uhm, er: How meaning varies between speech and its typed transcript. [Online].arViv. Available at: https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.01207.
Collins, H. M. 2016. Reproducibility of experiments: the experimenter's regress, statistical uncertainty principle and the replication imperative. In: Atmanspacher, H. and Maasen, S. eds. Reproducibility: Principles, Problems, Practices, and Prospects. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. , pp.65-82.
Collins, H. M. 2016. The notion of incommensurability. In: Towards a history of the history of science: 50 years since 'Structure'. Berlin: Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge
Collins, H. M. et al. 2016. Modelling architecture in the world of expertise. Room One Thousand 4 , pp.24-34.
Collins, H. M. , Evans, R. J. and Weinel, M. 2016. Expertise revisited, Part II: Contributory expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 56 , pp.103-110. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.07.003)
Collins, H. M. and Franklin, A. 2016. Two kinds of case study and a new agreement. In: Sauer, T. and Scholl, R. eds. The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science Vol. 319.Springer

2015

Collins, H. M. 2015. Can we teach people what science is really like?. Science Education 99 (6), pp.1049-1054. (10.1002/sce.21189)
Collins, H. M. 2015. Contingency and "the art of the soluble". In: Soler, L. , Trizio, E. and Pickering, A. eds. Science as it Could Have Been. Discussing the Contingent / Inevitable Aspects of Scientific Practices. Pittsburgh, Pa: University of Pittsburgh Press. , pp.177-186.
Collins, H. M. 2015. Scientific knowledge, sociology of. In: Wright, J. D. ed. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition. Vol. 21, Elsevier. , pp.308-312.
Collins, H. M. 2015. Symmetry, forced asymmetry, direct apprehension, and elective modernism. Journal of Critical Realism 13 (4), pp.411-421. (10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000036)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2015. Expertise revisited, Part I - interactional expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 54 , pp.113-123. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2015.07.004)

2014

Collins, H. M. and Bornmann, L. 2014. On scientific misconduct. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 65 (5), pp.1089-1090. (10.1002/asi.23159)
Collins, H. M. 2014. Are we all scientific experts now?. Polity Press.
Collins, H. M. 2014. Luka w samym sercu medycyny: efekt placebo. In: Binczyk, E. and Derra, A. eds. Studia nad nauka i technologia, Wybór tekstów [Science and Technology Studies. A Selection of Texts]. Nicolaus Copernicus University Press. , pp.335-354.
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2014. Actor and analyst: A response to Coopmans and Button. Social Studies of Science 44 (5), pp.786-792. (10.1177/0306312714546242)
Collins, H. 2014. Rejecting knowledge claims inside and outside science. Social Studies of Science 44 (5), pp.722-735. (10.1177/0306312714536011)

2013

Collins, H. M. 2013. Building an antenna for tacit knowledge. Philosophia Scientiae 17 (3), pp.25-39. (10.4000/philosophiascientiae.882)
Collins, H. M. 2013. Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog: Scientific discovery and social analysis in the twenty-first century. Chicago: The Unversity of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. 2013. Refining the tacit. Philosophia Scientae (17-3), pp.155-178. (10.4000/philosophiascientiae.895)
Collins, H. M. 2013. Three dimensions of expertise. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 12 (2), pp.253-273. (10.1007/s11097-011-9203-5)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2013. Quantifying the tacit: the imitation game and social fluency. Sociology n/a (10.1177/0038038512455735)
Collins, H. M. and Reber, A. 2013. Ships that pass in the night. Philosophia Scientiae 17 (3), pp.135-154.

2012

Collins, H. M. 2012. Comment on Kuhn. Social Studies of Science 42 (3), pp.420-423. (10.1177/0306312712436571)
Collins, H. M. 2012. Expert systems and the science of knowledge. In: Bijker, W. E. , Hughes, T. P. and Pinch, T. eds. The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology. MIT Press. , pp.321-340.
Collins, H. M. 2012. Inside and outside science: beware of acting too hastily on ClimateGate. In: Almlund, P. , Homann Jespersen, P. and Riis, S. eds. Rethinking Climate Change Research: Clean-Technology, Culture, and Communication,. Routledge. , pp.9-10.
Collins, H. M. 2012. Inside and outside science: beware of acting too hastily on Climategate. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. 2012. Language as a repository of tacit knowledge. Biosemiotics: The Symbolic Species Evolved 6 , pp.225-239. (10.1007/978-94-007-2336-8_11)
Collins, H. M. 2012. Performances and arguments: Bruno Latour: The modern cult of the factish Gods. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010, x+157pp, £69.95 HB, £19.95 PB [Book Review]. Metascience 21 (2), pp.409-418. (10.1007/s11016-011-9562-0)
Collins, H. M. 2012. Symbols, strings and social cartesianism: response to Mihaly Heder. Polanyiana 21 (1), pp.59-70.
Collins, H. M. 2012. The core of expertise. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 12 (2), pp.399-416. (10.1007/s11097-012-9277-8)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2012. Sport-decision aids and the 'CSI-effect': why cricket uses Hawk-Eye well and tennis uses it badly. Public Understanding of Science 21 (8), pp.904-921. (10.1177/0963662511407991)

2011

Collins, H. M. 2011. Analysing tacit knowledge: response to Henry and Lowney. Tradition & Discovery: The Polanyi Society Periodical 8 (1), pp.34-38. (10.5840/traddisc2011/201238110)
Collins, H. M. 2011. Language and practice. Social Studies of Science 41 (2), pp.271-200. (10.1177/0306312711399665)
Collins, H. M. 2011. Rejecting knowledge claims: a case study. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. 2011. Simulating what?. JASSS - The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 14 (4) 16. (10.18564/jasss.1866)
Collins, H. M. and Weinel, M. 2011. Transmuted expertise: how technical non-experts can assess experts and expertise. Argumentation 25 (3), pp.401-413. (10.1007/s10503-011-9217-8)
Collins, H. M. , Weinel, M. and Evans, R. J. 2011. Object and shadow: responses to the CPS critiques of Collins, Weinel and Evans', "Politics and policy of the Third Wave". Critical Policy Studies 5 (3), pp.340-348. (10.1080/19460171.2011.606309)
Selinger, E. , Thompson, P. and Collins, H. M. 2011. Catastrophe ethics and activist speech: Reflections on moral norms, advocacy, and technical judgment. Metaphilosophy 42 (1-2), pp.118-144. (10.1111/j.1467-9973.2010.01671.x)

2010

Collins, H. , Evans, R. and Gorman, M. E. 2010. Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise. In: Gorman, M. E. ed. Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.7-24.
Collins, H. M. 2010. Answer to 5 questions. In: Rosenberger, R. ed. Philosophy of Science: 5 Questions. Automatic Press. , pp.1-11.
Collins, H. M. 2010. Gravitational waves: inside the Equinox Event. New Scientist 208 (2788), pp.30-31.
Collins, H. M. 2010. Gravity’s ghost: scientific discovery in the twenty-first century. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. 2010. Humans not instruments. Spontaneous Generations: A Journal for the History and Philosophy of Science 4 (1), pp.138-147. (10.4245/sponge.v4i1.11354)
Collins, H. M. 2010. Interdisciplinary peer review and interactional expertise?. Sociologica 2010 (3)(10.2383/33638)
Collins, H. M. 2010. Tacit and explicit knowledge. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. 2010. Tacit knowledge: you don’t know how much you know. New Scientist 206 (2762), pp.30-31.
Collins, H. M. 2010. The philosophy of umpiring and the introduction of decision-aid technology. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport 37 (2), pp.135-146. (10.1080/00948705.2010.9714772)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2010. The third wave of science studies: studies of expertise and experience. In: Sergio, D. and Juhno, P. eds. Themes in Transdisciplinary Research. IEAT. , pp.299-363.
Collins, H. M. and Kusch, M. 2010. The shape of actions: what humans and machines can do. Fabrefactum Editora.
Collins, H. M. , Weinel, M. and Evans, R. J. 2010. The politics and policy of the Third Wave: new technologies and society. Critical Policy Studies 4 (2), pp.185-201. (10.1080/19460171.2010.490642)
Evans, R. J. and Collins, H. M. 2010. Interactional expertise and the imitation game. In: Gorman, M. E. ed. Trading Zones and Interactional Expertise: Creating New Kinds of Collaboration. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.53-70.

2009

Collins, H. M. 2009. The new orthodoxy: humans, animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus. In: Leidlmair, K. ed. After cognitivism: a reassessment of cognitive science and philosophy. Dordrecht: Springer. , pp.75-85.
Collins, H. M. 2009. The social construction of science. In: Olsen, J. K. B. , Pedersen, S. A. and Hendricks, V. F. eds. A companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. , pp.84-87.
Collins, H. M. 2009. Walking the talk: doing gravity’s shadow. In: Puddephatt, A. J. , Shaffir, W. and Kleinknecht, S. W. eds. Ethnographies Revisited: Constructing Theory in the Field. London: Routledge. , pp.289-304.
Collins, H. M. 2009. We cannot live by scepticism alone. Nature 458 (7234), pp.30-31. (10.1038/458030a)

2008

Collins, H. , Clark, A. and Shrager, J. 2008. Keeping the collectivity in mind?. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (3), pp.353-374. (10.1007/s11097-008-9100-8)
Collins, H. M. 2008. Actors' and analysts' categories in the social analysis of science. In: Meusburger, P. , Meusburger, M. and Wunder, E. eds. Clashes of Knowledge: Orthodoxies and Heterodoxies in Science and Religion. Vol. 1, Dordrecht: Springer. , pp.101-110.
Collins, H. M. 2008. Codes, signs and the explicit. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. 2008. Response to Selinger on Dreyfus. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 7 (2), pp.309-311. (10.1007/s11097-007-9049-z)
Collins, H. M. 2008. The meaning of hoaxes. In: Mazzotti, M. ed. Knowledge as Social Order: Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes. Surrey, UK: Ashgate. , pp.77-83.
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2008. You cannot be serious! Public understanding of technology with special reference to 'Hawk-Eye'. Public Understanding of Science 17 (3), pp.283-308. (10.1177/0963662508093370)

2007

Collins, H. M. 2007. A new programme of research?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (4), pp.615-620. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.004)
Collins, H. M. 2007. Actor’s and analysts’ categories in the social analysis of science. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. 2007. Answers to 5 questions. In: Olsen, J. B. and Selinger, E. eds. Philosophy of Technology. Automatic Press/VIP. , pp.31-43.
Collins, H. M. 2007. Bicycling on the Moon: Collective tacit knowledge and somatic-limit tacit knowledge. Organization Studies 28 (2), pp.257-262. (10.1177/0170840606073759)
Collins, H. M. 2007. Mathematical understanding and the physical sciences. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (4), pp.667-685. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.001)
Collins, H. M. 2007. Perspectives: When is an expert not an expert?. New Scientist 196 (2631), pp.58-59.
Collins, H. M. 2007. The meaning of hoaxes. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. 2007. The new orthodoxy: humans, animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. , Clark, A. and Shrager, J. 2007. Keeping the collectivity in mind?. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. 2007. Rethinking expertise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2007. Expertise: from attribute to attribution and back again?. In: Hackett, E. et al., The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. , pp.609-630.
Collins, H. M. , Evans, R. J. and Gorman, M. 2007. Trading zones and interactional expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (4), pp.657-666. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.003)
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. 2007. Who is to blame for the Challenger explosion?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (1), pp.254-255. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2006.12.006)
Collins, H. M. and Ribeiro, R. 2007. The bread-making machine: Tacit knowledge and two types of action. Organization Studies 28 (9), pp.1417-1433. (10.1177/0170840607082228)
Collins, H. M. and Sanders, G. 2007. They give you the keys and say 'drive it!' Managers, referred expertise, and other expertises. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (4), pp.621-641. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.002)
Selinger, E. , Dreyfus, H. and Collins, H. M. 2007. Interactional expertise and embodiment. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 38 (4), pp.722-740. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.008)

2006

Collins, H. and Evans, R. 2006. The third wave of science studies: studies of expertise and experience. In: Selinger, E. and Crease, R. eds. The Philosophy of Expertise. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. , pp.39-110.
Collins, H. M. 2006. The uses of sociology of science for scientists and educators. Science & Education 16 (3-5), pp.217-230. (10.1007/s11191-005-2389-6)
Collins, H. M. et al. 2006. Experiments with interactional expertise. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 37 (4), pp.656-674. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2006.09.005)
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. 2006. On chance and contingency in science and art. Public 33 , pp.58-62.

2005

Collins, H. M. 2005. The TEA Set. In: Smith, M. ed. Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences. Sage
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. 2005. Dr Golem: how to think about medicine. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.

2004

Collins, H. M. 2004. Gravity's shadow: the search for gravitational waves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. 2004. How do you know you've alternated?. Social Studies of Science 34 (1), pp.103-106. (10.1177/0306312704041342)
Collins, H. M. 2004. Interactional expertise as a third kind of knowledge. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3 (2), pp.125-143. (10.1023/B:PHEN.0000040824.89221.1a)
Collins, H. M. 2004. Qualitative methodology in practice: my experience. In: Humphrey, C. and Lee, B. eds. The Real Life Guide to Accounting Research. Elsevier. , pp.481-490.
Collins, H. M. 2004. The trouble with Madeleine. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 3 (2), pp.165-170. (10.1023/B:PHEN.0000040823.21983.19)

2003

Collins, H. M. 2003. Lead into gold: the science of finding nothing. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 34 (4), pp.661-691. (10.1016/j.shpsa.2003.09.002)
Collins, H. M. 2003. LIGO becomes big science. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 33 (2), pp.261-297. (10.1525/hsps.2003.33.2.261)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2003. King Canute meets the Beach Boys: responses to the Third Wave. Social Studies of Science 33 (3), pp.435-452. (10.1177/03063127030333007)

2002

Collins, H. M. 2002. The experimenter's regress as philosophical sociology. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 33 (1), pp.149-156. (10.1016/S0039-3681(01)00033-4)
Collins, H. M. 2002. The third wave of science studies: studies of expertise and experience?. Social Studies of Science 32 (2), pp.235-296. (0.1177/0306312702032002003)
Collins, H. M. and Evans, R. J. 2002. The Third Wave of Science Studies: Studies of Expertise and Experience. Social Studies of Science 32 (2), pp.235-296. (10.1177/0306312702032002003)
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. J. 2002. The Golem at large: what you should know about technology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

2001

Collins, H. M. 2001. A Martian sends a postcard home. In: Collins, H. M. and Labinger, J. A. eds. The One Culture? A Conversation about Science. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. , pp.156-166.
Collins, H. M. 2001. A perspective on scientific research and its findings. In: Borland, C. ed. Progressive Disorder. Dundee Contemporary Arts/ Book Works. , pp.62-63.
Collins, H. M. 2001. Crown jewels and rough diamonds: the source of science's authority. In: Collins, H. M. and Labinger, J. A. eds. The One Culture?: A Conversation about Science,. University of Chicago Press. , pp.255-260.
Collins, H. M. 2001. One more round with relativism. In: Collins, H. M. and Labinger, J. A. eds. The One Culture?: A Conversation About Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. , pp.184-195.
Collins, H. M. 2001. Tacit Knowledge, Trust, and the Q of Sapphire. Social Studies of Science 31 (1), pp.71-85. (10.1177/030631201031001004)
Collins, H. M. 2001. The Turing Test and the Imitation Game: humans and machines. In: Obrist, H. U. , Ulrich, H. and Vanderlinden, B. eds. The Theatre of Proof: Catalogue of the Antwerp Laboratorium on the Occasion of the Antoine van Dyke Exhibition catalogue. Dumont,: Antwerpen Open, Roomade. , pp.234-237.
Collins, H. M. 2001. What is tacit knowledge?. In: Cetina, K. K. , Schatzki, T. R. and Savigny, E. v. eds. The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory. London: Routledge. , pp.107-119.
Collins, H. M. 2001. Wissenschaftsgeschichte fur den Politischen Burger. In: Scharping, M. ed. Wissenschaftsfeinde: Science Wars und die Provokation der Wissenschaftsforschung. Westfälisches Dampfboot. , pp.33-41.

2000

Collins, H. M. 2000. Four kinds of knowledge, two (or maybe three) kinds of embodiment, and the question of artificial intelligence. In: Wrathall, M. and Malpas, J. eds. Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science, Vol 2: Essays in Honor of Hubert L. Dreyfus. Boston: MIT Press. , pp.179-195.
Collins, H. M. 2000. On Beyond 2000. Studies in Science Education 35 (1), pp.169-173. (10.1080/03057260008560160)
Collins, H. M. 2000. Surviving Closure: Post Rejection Adaptation and Plurality in Science. American Sociological Review 65 (6), pp.824-845. (10.2307/2657515)
Collins, H. M. 2000. Tacit knowledge, trust, and the Q of sapphire. Working paper. Cardiff: Cardiff University.
Collins, H. M. 2000. What computers can't do and what they can do/Les capacites des ordinateurs et leurs limites. Reseaux 100 , pp.19-36.

1999

Collins, H. M. 1999. A cumunidade cientifica em tempos de disputa. In: Gil, F. ed. A ciencia tal qual se faz. Lisbon: Ministerio da Ciencia e da Technologia/Edicoes Joao sa da Costa LDA. , pp.53-64.
Collins, H. M. 1999. Philosophy of Science and SSK: Reply to Koertge. Social Studies of Science 29, 5 , pp.785-790.
Collins, H. M. 1999. Tantalus and the aliens: Publications, audiences and the search for gravitational waves. Social Studies of Science 29 (2), pp.163-197. (10.1177/030631299029002001)

1998

Collins, H. M. 1998. Socialness and the undersocialized conception of society. Science, Technology & Human Values 23 (4), pp.494-516. (10.1177/016224399802300408)
Collins, H. M. 1998. The meaning of data: Open and closed evidential cultures in the search for gravitational waves. American Journal of Sociology 104 (2), pp.293-338. (10.1086/210040)
Collins, H. M. and Lynch, M. 1998. Introduction: humans, animals, and machines. Science Technology and Human Values 23 (4), pp.371-383. (10.1177/016224399802300401)

1997

Collins, H. M. 1997. Expertise: Between the Scylla of certainty and the new age charybdis. Accountability in Research 5 (1-3), pp.127-135. (10.1080/08989629708573904)
Collins, H. M. 1997. Rat tale: sociology's contribution to the problem of human and machine cognition in context. In: Feltovich, P. J. , Ford, K. M. and Hoffman, R. R. eds. Expertise in Context. MIT/ AAAI. , pp.293-311.
Collins, H. M. 1997. The editing test for the deep problem of AI. Psycoloquy 8 (1) 8.
Collins, H. M. 1997. Two kinds of scientific fundamentalism. Presented at: Forum Europeenne de la Science et de la Technologie, Edition des actes du colloque 1997: Science, mythes et religions en Europe, Strasbourg, France 1997.
Collins, H. M. , De Vries, G. and Bijker, W. 1997. Ways of going on: An analysis of skill applied to medical practice. Science, Technology & Human Values 22 (3), pp.267-285. (10.1177/016224399702200301)
Pinch, T. , Collins, H. M. and Carbone, L. 1997. Cutting up skills: estimating difficulty as an element of surgical and other abilities. In: Barley, S. R. and Orr, J. E. eds. Between Craft and Science: Technical Work in the United States. Collection on Technology and Work Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. , pp.101-112.

1996

Collins, H. M. 1996. Embedded or embodied? a review of Hubert Dreyfus' What Computers Still Can't Do [Book Review]. Artificial Intelligence 80 (1), pp.99-117. (10.1016/0004-3702(96)00083-6)
Collins, H. M. 1996. In praise of futile gestures: how scientific is the sociology of scientific knowledge?. Social Studies of Science 26 (2), pp.229-244. (10.1177/030631296026002002)
Collins, H. M. 1996. Interaction without society? What avatars can't do. In: Stefik, M. J. ed. Internet Dreams: Archetypes, Myths, and Metaphors. MIT Press. , pp.317-326.
Collins, H. M. 1996. Scientific evidence: a common sense approach is needed. Expert Evidence 4 (4), pp.156-158.
Collins, H. M. 1996. Theory dopes: A critique of Murphy. Sociology 30 (2), pp.367-373. (10.1177/0038038596030002010)
Pinch, T. , Collins, H. M. and Carborne, L. 1996. Inside knowledge: second order measures of skill. The Sociological Review 44 (2), pp.163-186. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.1996.tb00420.x)

1995

Collins, H. M. 1995. Cooperation and the two cultures: Response to Labinger. Social Studies of Science 25 (2), pp.306-309. (10.1177/030631295025002005)
Collins, H. M. 1995. Humans, machines, and the structure of knowledge. Stanford Humanities Review 4 (2), pp.67-84.
Collins, H. M. 1995. Humans, machines and the structure of knowledge. Stanford Humanities Review 4 (1), pp.67-83.
Collins, H. M. 1995. Science studies and machine intelligence. In: Jasanoff, S. et al., Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. London: Sage Publications Inc.. , pp.286-301.
Collins, H. M. and Kusch, M. 1995. Automating air pumps: an empirical and conceptual analysis. Technology and Culture 36 (4), pp.802-829. (10.2307/3106916)
Collins, H. M. and Kusch, M. 1995. Two kinds of actions: A phenomenological study. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 55 (4), pp.799-819. (10.2307/2108333)

1994

Collins, H. M. 1994. A strong confirmation of the experimenters' regress. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 25 (3), pp.493-503. (10.1016/0039-3681(94)90063-9)
Collins, H. M. 1994. Dissecting surgery: forms of life depersonalized. Social Studies of Science 24 (2), pp.311-333. (10.1177/030631279402400205)
Collins, H. M. 1994. Scene from afar. Social Studies of Science 24 (2), pp.369-389. (10.1177/030631279402400209)
Collins, H. M. 1994. The nature of scientific knowledge: some implications for Artificial Intelligence.. National Forum 74 (Spring), pp.28-31.

1993

Collins, H. M. 1993. Artificial experts: social knowledge and intelligent systems. Inside Technology Series MIT Press.
Collins, H. M. 1993. Comment on "open peer commentary on the scientific status of econometrics". Social Epistemology 7 (3), pp.233-236. (10.1080/02691729308578696)
Collins, H. M. 1993. Experiences et demonstration. In: Bacon, E. ed. Les Scientifiques et le Spectacle da la Science: Actes de la IVeme Recontre Internationale du Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche sur la Science de l'Universite Louis Pasteur. Strasbourg: GERSULP. , pp.15-18.
Collins, H. M. 1993. The structure of knowledge. Social Research: An International Quarterly 60 (1), pp.95-116.
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. J. 1993. The Golem: what everyone should know about science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

1992

Collins, H. M. 1992. Ai-Vey!: Response to Slezak. Social Studies of Science 22 (1), pp.201-203. (10.1177/0306312792022001011)
Collins, H. M. 1992. Changing order: replication and induction in scientific practice. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. 1992. Hubert L. Dreyfus, forms of life, and a simple test for machine intelligence. Social Studies of Science 22 (4), pp.726-739. (10.1177/030631292022004008)
Collins, H. M. and Yearley, S. 1992. Epistemological chicken. In: Pickering, A. ed. Science as Practice and Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. , pp.301-326.
Collins, H. M. and Yearley, S. 1992. Journey into space. In: Pickering, A. ed. Science as Practice and Culture. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. , pp.369-389.

1991

Collins, H. M. 1991. Captives and victims: Comment on Scott, Richards, and Martin. Science, Technology & Human Values 16 (2), pp.249-251. (10.1177/016224399101600207)
Collins, H. M. 1991. Comment on Smith, McCabe and Rassenti,`Experiments and simulations'. In: De Marchi, N. and Blaug, M. eds. Appraising Modern Economics: Studies in the Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes,. Aldershot: Edward Elgar. , pp.227-231.
Collins, H. M. 1991. History and sociology of science and history and methodology of economics. In: Marchi, N. d. and Blaug, M. eds. Appraising Economic Theories: Studies in the Methodology of Research Programs. Aldershot: Edward Elgar Publishing. , pp.492-498.
Collins, H. M. 1991. Simon's Slezak. Social Studies of Science 21 (1), pp.148-149. (10.1177/030631291021001009)
Collins, H. M. 1991. The meaning of replication and the science of economics. History of Political Economy 23 (1), pp.123-142. (10.1215/00182702-23-1-123)
Collins, H. M. and Travis, G. 1991. New light on old boys: Cognitive and institutional particularism in the peer review system. Science, Technology & Human Values 16 (3), pp.322-341. (10.1177/016224399101600303)

1990

Collins, H. M. 1990. Artificial experts: Social knowledge and intelligent machines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

1989

Collins, H. M. 1989. Computers and the sociology of scientific knowledge1. Social Studies of Science 19 (4), pp.613-624. (10.1177/030631289019004003)
Collins, H. M. 1989. Learning through enculturation. In: Gellatly, A. , Rogers, D. and Sloboda, J. eds. Cognition and Social Worlds. Keele Cognition Seminars Vol. 2.Oxford: Oxford University Press. , pp.205-215.
Collins, H. M. 1989. Scientific knowledge and scientific criticism. Presented at: Parapsychology and Human Nature (1986) Washington, D.C., USA 1-2 November 1986. Published in: Shapin, B. and Coly, L. eds. Parapsychology and Human Nature: 35th Annual International Conference: Papers and Discussions. New York, NY: Parapsychology Foundation. , pp.36-56.
Collins, H. M. 1989. The meaning of experiment: replication and reasonableness. In: Lawson, H. and Appignanesi, L. eds. Dismantling Truth: Reality in the Post-Modern World. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. , pp.82-92.

1988

Collins, H. M. 1988. Public experiments and displays of virtuosity: The core-set revisited. Social Studies of Science 18 (4), pp.725-748. (10.1177/030631288018004006)

1987

Collins, H. M. 1987. Certainty and the public understanding of science: Science on television1. Social Studies of Science 17 (4), pp.689-713. (10.1177/030631287017004005)
Collins, H. M. 1987. Expert systems, artificial intelligence and the behavioural co-ordinates of skill. In: Bloomfield, B. ed. The Question of Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical and Sociological Perspectives. London: Croom-Helm. , pp.258-282. (10.4324/9780429505331-6)
Collins, H. M. 1987. Misunderstanding replication?. Social Science Information 26 (2), pp.451-459. (10.1177/053901887026002012)
Collins, H. M. 1987. Pumps, rock and reality [Extended Review]. The Sociological Review 35 (4), pp.819-828. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.1987.tb00567.x)

1985

Collins, H. M. 1985. The medical literature: obviating ignorance or creating knowledge?. In: Brittain, M. ed. Consensus and Penalties for Ignorance in the Medical Sciences - Implications for Information Transfer,. London: Taylor Graham,. , pp.148-159.
Collins, H. M. 1985. The possibilities of science policy. Social Studies of Science 15 (3), pp.554-558. (10.1177/030631285015003009)
Collins, H. M. , Draper, R. and Green, R. H. 1985. Where's the expertise: expert systems as a medium of knowledge transfer. In: Merry, M. J. ed. Expert Systems 85. Cambridge University Press. , pp.323-334.

1984

Collins, H. M. 1984. Researching spoonbending: Concepts and practice of participatory fieldwork. In: Bell, C. and Roberts, H. eds. Social Researching: Politics, Problems, Practice. London and New York: Routledge. , pp.54-69. (10.4324/9781003457367-4)
Collins, H. M. 1984. When do scientists prefer to vary their experiments?. Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 15 (2), pp.169-174. (10.1016/0039-3681(84)90005-0)
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. J. 1984. Private science and public knowledge: The committee for the scientific investigation of the claims of the paranormal and its use of the literature. Social Studies of Science 14 (4), pp.521-546. (10.1177/030631284014004002)

1983

Collins, H. M. 1983. An empirical relativist programme in the sociology of scientific knowledge. In: Knorr-Cetina, K. and Mulkay, M. eds. Science Observed: Perspectives on the Social Study of Science. London: Sage. , pp.85-114.
Collins, H. M. 1983. Magicians in the laboratory: a new role to play. New Scientist 98 (30), pp.929-931.
Collins, H. M. 1983. The meaning of lies: accounts of action and participatory research. In: Gilbert, G. N. and Abell, P. eds. Accounts and Actions: Conference Proceedings. Surrey Conferences on Sociological Theory & Method Gower. , pp.69-78.
Collins, H. M. 1983. The sociology of scientific knowledge: Studies of contemporary science. Annual Review of Sociology 9 , pp.265-285. (10.1146/annurev.so.09.080183.001405)
Collins, H. M. and Shapin, S. 1983. Experiment, science teaching, and the new history and sociology of science. Presented at: International Conference on Innovatory Physics Education Pavia, Italy 5-9 September 1983. Published in: Kennedy, P. J. and Bevilacqua, F. eds. Proceedings of the International Conference on Using History of Physics in Innovatory Physics Education. Pavia: Centro Studi per la Didattica della Facolta di scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali, Universita di Pavia / International Commission on Physics Education. , pp.282-292.

1982

Collins, H. M. 1982. Knowledge, norms and rules in the sociology of science. Social Studies of Science 12 (2), pp.299-309. (10.1177/030631282012002005)
Collins, H. M. 1982. Special relativism - the natural attitude. Social Studies of Science 12 (1), pp.139-143. (10.1177/030631282012001009)
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. J. 1982. Frames of meaning: the social construction of extraordinary science. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

1981

Collins, H. M. 1981. Son of seven sexes: The social destruction of a physical phenomenon. Social Studies of Science 11 (1), pp.33-62. (10.1177/030631278101100103)
Collins, H. M. 1981. Stages in the empirical programme of relativism. Social Studies of Science 11 (1), pp.3-10. (10.1177/030631278101100101)
Collins, H. M. 1981. The place of the ‘core-set’ in modern science: social contingency with methodological propriety in science. History of Science 19 (1), pp.6-19. (10.1177/007327538101900102)
Collins, H. M. 1981. Understanding science. Fundamenta Scientiae 2 , pp.367-380.
Collins, H. M. 1981. What is TRASP?: The radical programme as a methodological imperative. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 11 (2), pp.215-224. (10.1177/004839318101100207)
Collins, H. M. and Pinch, T. J. 1981. Rationality and paradigm allegiance in extraordinary science. In: Duerr, H. P. ed. The Scientist and the Irrational. Frankfurt:: Syndikat. , pp.284-306.

1979

Collins, H. and Pinch, T. J. 1979. The construction of the paranormal: nothing unscientific is happening. In: Wallis, R. ed. Sociological Review Monograph. No. 27: On the Margins of Science: The Social Construction of Rejected Knowledge,. Keele University Press. , pp.237-270.
Collins, H. M. 1979. The investigation of frames of meaning in science: complementarity and compromise. The Sociological Review 27 (4), pp.703-718. (10.1111/j.1467-954X.1979.tb00356.x)
Pinch, T. J. and Collins, H. M. 1979. Is anti-science not-science? The case of parapsychology. In: Nowotny, H. and Rose, H. eds. Counter-Movements in the Sciences: The Sociology of the Alternatives to Big Science. Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Springer Netherlands. , pp.221-250. (10.1007/978-94-009-9421-8_11)

1978

Collins, H. M. 1978. Replication of experiments: A sociological comment. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (3), pp.391-392. (10.1017/S0140525X00075567)

1977

Collins, H. M. and Cox, G. 1977. Relativity revisited: Mrs Keech — a suitable case for special treatment?. Social Studies of Science 7 (3), pp.372-380. (10.1177/030631277700700306)

1976

Collins, H. M. 1976. Upon the replication of scientific findings: A discussion illuminated by the experiences of researchers into parapsychology. Presented at: Society for Social Studies of Science 4S/ISA 1976 Conference Ithaca, NY, USA 4-6 November 1976.
Collins, H. M. and Cox, G. 1976. Recovering relativity: Did prophecy fail?. Social Studies of Science 6 (3-4), pp.423-444. (10.1177/030631277600600307)

1975

Collins, H. M. 1975. The seven sexes: a study in the sociology of a phenomenon, or the replication of experiments in physics. Sociology 9 (2), pp.205-224. (10.1177/003803857500900202)
Collins, H. M. and Pamplin, B. 1975. Spoon bending: an experimental approach [Letter]. Nature 257 , pp.441-450.

1974

Collins, H. M. 1974. The TEA Set: Tacit knowledge and scientific networks. Social Studies of Science 4 (2), pp.165-185. (10.1177/030631277400400203)

The Nature of Scientific Knowledge and knowledge in general;
Public Understanding of Science;
The Nature of Skills and Expertise;
Artificial Intelligence and the relationship between humans and machines;
Medical Knowledge and Skills; Science Education;
A long term project on the detection of cosmic gravitational radiation.

Graduate supervision

The nature of knowledge;
The nature of expertise;
Medical knowledge and practice;
Public understanding of science;
Artificial Intelligence;
Humans and machines.

Other appointments and positions

2003 - Jan-Mar Andrew W Mellon Visiting Professor of History, California Institute of Technology
2002 - Apr/May Visiting Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
2001 - Oct/Nov Visiting Research Fellow, Cornell University Dept of Science and Technology Studies
1999 - Affiliated Research Scholar, Dept of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University
1993 - Mar-Jun Visiting Professor, University of California at San Diego
1991-1993 President, Society for Social Studies of Science Short visiting positions at Xerox PARC (1987) and Princeton University History of Science (1983)

Honours and awards

2012 - elected a Fellow of the British Academy
1997 - Society for Social Studies of Science, J. D. Bernal award for contributions to the social studies of science (awarded at the Tucson meeting in October 1997).
1995 - American Sociological Association, Robert K Merton Book Prize ( The Golem ).
1994/5 - Emory and Henry College Virginia, USA. Book of the year ( The Golem ).
1985 - British Computer Society Specialist Group in Expert Systems, Prize for technical merit: best paper at conference.

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