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Bibliography: The Sociology of Harry Collins

I call Harry Collins the testers’ sociologist. It’s not that he has studied testers, as such. He’s studied scientists, and his work marvelously relates to ours. His work on the nature of expertise, experimentation, and tacit knowledge has been transformative to me.

Journal Articles

Collins, H., Leonard-Clarke, W., & O’Mahoney, H. (2019). ‘Um, er’: how meaning varies between speech and its typed transcript. Qualitative Research, 146879411881661. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794118816615
Collins, H. (2018). Are Experts Right or are They Members of Expert Groups? Social Epistemology, 32(6), 351–357. https://doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2018.1546346
Evans, R., Collins, H., Weinel, M., Lyttleton-Smith, J., O’Mahoney, H., & Leonard-Clarke, W. (2018). Groups and individuals: conformity and diversity in the performance of gendered identities. The British Journal of Sociology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12507
Harry Collins, F. B. A. (2018). Remembering Bert Dreyfus. AI & SOCIETY, s00146-018-0796–x. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0796-x
Collins, H. (2018). Studies of Expertise and Experience. Topoi, 37(1), 67–77. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-016-9412-1
Collins, H., Evans, R., Weinel, M., Lyttleton-Smith, J., Bartlett, A., & Hall, M. (2017). The Imitation Game and the Nature of Mixed Methods. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 11(4), 510–527. https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689815619824
Collins, H., Bartlett, A., & Reyes-Galindo, L. (2017). Demarcating Fringe Science for Policy. Perspectives on Science, 25(4), 411–438. https://doi.org/10.1162/POSC_a_00248
Collins, H., Evans, R., & Weinel, M. (2017). STS as science or politics? Social Studies of Science, 47(4), 580–586. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312717710131
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2017). Probes, Surveys, and the Ontology of the Social. Journal of Mixed Methods Research, 11(3), 328–341. https://doi.org/10.1177/1558689815619825
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2017). The Bearing of Studies of Expertise and Experience on Ethnography. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(6), 445–451. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416673663
Collins, H. M., Reyes-Galindo, L., & Ginsparg, P. (2017). A note concerning primary source knowledge. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 68(5), 1105–1110. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.23753
Ribeiro, R., & Lima, F. P. (2016). The value of practice: A critique of interactional expertise. Social Studies of Science, 46(2), 282–311. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312715615970
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2016). A thousand words is worth a picture. Social Studies of Science, 46(2), 312–324. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312716637437
Collins, H. (2016). Social Construction of Reality. Human Studies, 39(1), 161–165. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-016-9388-2
Franklin, A., & Collins, H. (2016). Two Kinds of Case Study and a New Agreement. In T. Sauer & R. Scholl (Eds.), The Philosophy of Historical Case Studies (Vol. 319, pp. 95–121). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30229-4_6
Collins, H. (2015). Can We Teach People What Science Is Really Like?: CAN WE TEACH PEOPLE WHAT SCIENCE IS REALLY LIKE? Science Education, 99(6), 1049–1054. https://doi.org/10.1002/sce.21189
Collins, H. (2014). Three Waves of Science Studies. In M. Burguete & L. Lam, All About Science (pp. 243–252). WORLD SCIENTIFIC. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814472937_0011
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2014). Actor and analyst: A response to Coopmans and Button. Social Studies of Science, 44(5), 786–792. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312714546242
Collins, H. (2014). Rejecting knowledge claims inside and outside science. Social Studies of Science, 44(5), 722–735. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312714536011
Collins, H. (2014). Symmetry, Forced Asymmetry, Direct Apprehension, and Elective Modernism. Journal of Critical Realism, 13(4), 411–421. https://doi.org/10.1179/1476743014Z.00000000036
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2014). Quantifying the Tacit: The Imitation Game and Social Fluency. Sociology, 48(1), 3–19. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038038512455735
Collins, H. (2013). Three dimensions of expertise. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 12(2), 253–273. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-011-9203-5
Collins, H. (2013). The core of expertise. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 12(2), 399–416. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-012-9277-8
Collins, H. (2013). The Role of the Sociologist after half-a-century of studying science. South African Review of Sociology, 44(1), 158–179. https://doi.org/10.1080/21528586.2013.784454
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (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), 904–921. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662511407991
Collins, H. (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. Metascience, 21(2), 409–418. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-011-9562-0
Collins, H. (2012). Comment on Kuhn. Social Studies of Science, 42(3), 420–423. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312712436571
Collins, H. (2012). Language as a Repository of Tacit Knowledge. In T. Schilhab, F. Stjernfelt, & T. Deacon (Eds.), The Symbolic Species Evolved (Vol. 6, pp. 225–239). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2336-8_11
Collins, H., Weinel, M., & Evans, R. (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), 340–348. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2011.606309
Collins, H., & Weinel, M. (2011). Transmuted Expertise: How Technical Non-Experts Can Assess Experts and Expertise. Argumentation, 25(3), 401–413. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10503-011-9217-8
Collins, H. (2011). Language and practice. Social Studies of Science, 41(2), 271–300. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312711399665
Collins, H. (2011). Viewpoint — Measures, Markets and Information. Methodological Innovations Online, 6(1), 3–6. https://doi.org/10.4256/mio.2010.0022
Selinger, E., Thompson, P., & Collins, H. (2011). CATASTROPHE ETHICS AND ACTIVIST SPEECH: REFLECTIONS ON MORAL NORMS, ADVOCACY, AND TECHNICAL JUDGMENT: CATASTROPHE ETHICS AND ACTIVIST SPEECH. Metaphilosophy, 42(1–2), 118–144. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9973.2010.01671.x
Collins, H., Weinel, M., & Evans, R. (2010). The politics and policy of the Third Wave: new technologies and society. Critical Policy Studies, 4(2), 185–201. https://doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2010.490642
Collins, H. (2010). Preserving a Space for Science in an Age of Democracy. PLoS Biology, 8(1), e274. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1000274
Collins, H. (2010). The Philosophy of Umpiring and the Introduction of Decision-Aid Technology. Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, 37(2), 135–146. https://doi.org/10.1080/00948705.2010.9714772
Collins, H. M. (2009). The New Orthodoxy: Humans, Animals, Heidegger and Dreyfus. In K. Leidlmair, After Cognitivism (pp. 75–85). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9992-2_4
Collins, H., Clark, A., & Shrager, J. (2008). Keeping the collectivity in mind? Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 7(3), 353–374. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-008-9100-8
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2008). You cannot be serious! Public understanding of technology with special reference to “Hawk-Eye.” Public Understanding of Science, 17(3), 283–308. https://doi.org/10.1177/0963662508093370
Collins, H. M. (2008). Response to Selinger on Dreyfus. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 7(2), 309–311. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-007-9049-z
Collins, H. (2008). Actors’ and Analysts’ Categories in the Social Analysis of Science. In P. Meusburger, M. Welker, & E. Wunder (Eds.), Clashes of Knowledge (Vol. 1, pp. 101–110). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5555-3_4
collins, H. (2007). The Uses of Sociology of Science for Scientists and Educators. Science & Education, 16(3–5), 217–230. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11191-005-2389-6
Collins, H., & 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), 621–641. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsa.2007.09.002
Ribeiro, R., & Collins, H. (2007). The Bread-Making Machine: Tacit Knowledge and Two Types of Action. Organization Studies, 28(9), 1417–1433. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840607082228
Collins, H. (2007). Bicycling on the Moon: Collective Tacit Knowledge and Somatic-limit Tacit Knowledge. Organization Studies, 28(2), 257–262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0170840606073759
Collins, H. (2004). How Do You Know You’ve Alternated? Social Studies of Science, 34(1), 103–106. https://doi.org/10.1177/0306312704041342
Collins, H. (2004). The trouble with Madeleine. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 3(2), 165–170. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PHEN.0000040823.21983.19
Collins, H. (2004). Interactional expertise as a third kind of knowledge. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 3(2), 125–143. https://doi.org/10.1023/B:PHEN.0000040824.89221.1a
Collins, H. M., & Evans, R. (2003). King Canute Meets the Beach Boys: Responses to the Third Wave. Social Studies of Science, 33(3), 435–452. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127030333007
Collins, H. M. (2003). LIGO becomes big science. Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences, 33(2), 261–297. https://doi.org/10.1525/hsps.2003.33.2.261

Books in My Library

Collins, H. M. (2019). Forms of life: the method and meaning of sociology. The MIT press.
Collins, H. M. (2018). Artifictional intelligence: against humanity’s surrender to computers. Polity Press.
Collins, H. M. (2014). Are we all scientific experts now? http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=3059053
Collins, H. M. (2011). Gravity’s ghost: scientific discovery in the twenty-first century. The University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. (2010). Tacit and Explicit Knowledge. University Of Chicago Press.
Gorman, M. E. (Ed.). (2010). Trading zones and interactional expertise: creating new kinds of collaboration. MIT Press.
Collins, H., & Evans, R. (2008). Rethinking Expertise. University of Chicago Press. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=408441
Collins, H. M. (2004). Gravity’s shadow: the search for gravitational waves. University of Chicago Press. http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=574733
Collins, H. (2002). The Golem at Large: What You Should Know about Technology (Canto). Cambridge University Press.
Collins, H. M. (1998). The shape of actions: what humans and machines can do. MIT Press.
Collins, H. M. (1998). The Golem: What You Should Know about Science (Canto). Cambridge University Press.
Collins, H. M. (1992). Changing order: replication and induction in scientific practice. University of Chicago Press.
Collins, H. M. (1990). Artificial experts: social knowledge and intelligent machines. MIT Press.