PHIL 2180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Reward System
26 Feb 2016
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Chapter 11: naturalism and the social structure of science. Wrote book called science as a process in 1988. Hull states that science runs on a combination of cooperation and competition. Believes that scientists operate under a reward program with the main accomplishment being use; a scientist wants other scientists to use their work. Believes that other people will take a critique approach to your work, so you do not have to. Hull describes scientific change as an evolutionary process, through biology. Kitcher believes that the better research program should receive most resources, but some resources should be used for the least promising research program as well. Best reward system is to reward only the individuals who work on the research program that succeeds, but we divide the reward equally among each member.
