HPSC4105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Rumford Medal, Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation, Formal System

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: History and Philosophy of Science
• Course: HPSC4105
• Professor: all

Document Summary

(2) social structural and institutional foundations of science. Robert merton saw science as a self regulating community of researchers governed by a strong and distinctive ethos. This ethos involved the pursuit of truth through information sharing and scrutinisation of others work for the upholding of scientific standards. Money for science comes from the government or business enterprises and goes into their own laboratories or academic science funded by the gov. In australia science is done in universties, corporations or government science like csiro. We can define academic science as that science which is carried out in academic institutions, combining the roles of teaching and research. There is great stress upon publication in refereed scientific journals. After years of training and time taken to conduct the research and write up the report. The scientist is not paid for his paper which is published but often charged for the publication of their work.