analyze david hull

Introduction: David Hull's book provides an evolutionary account of the development of science which pays attention to both the social and conceptual aspects of that process. Unlike most philosophers, who only invoke Darwinian metaphors in a casual way, Hull takes the analogy between the biological evolution of species and the growth of scientific knowledge quite seriously and by providing abstract definitions of terms such as replicator, interactor and lineage, he makes it possible for us …

…that credit does play an important role in the furthering of intellectual progress in science. I may be less optimistic than David, however, about how efficiently our present credit system functions. And I also think we need to have a good analysis of exactly how the present reward system benefits science. It is not good enough just to say, science is doing pretty well so our present credit system must be O.K. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**