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Hull's project has two aspects -one empirical, the other conceptual. I take them in turn. ## THE EMPIRICAL ASPECT The empirical one involves finding out exactly how scientific theories and conceptual systems originate and are transmitted. One needs to investigate the psychology of the creative process; the social structure of scientific communities; the economics and politics involved in the funding of research programmes; the dynamics of the publication process; the politics and logistics of experimental testing; and like matters. In this connection Hull has provided interesting data and insights, which I would not wish to challenge. He does not, however, go so far as to draw on the work of the Edinburgh school of sociology of science (Bloor 1976; Barnes 1977; Compare Knorr-Cetina 1981; also Pickering 1984); but that may be because he would not wish to endorse their anti-rationalist, relativist conclusions (for more on which, see below). I think Hull's notions of conceptual inclusive fitness and of the demic structure of science offer the prospect of fertile application and extensions in this area. His analysis of the balance between cooperation and competition among scientists pu

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Author

Neil Tennant

Publisher

Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 0169-3867)

Published

1988

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)