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Totality of Science

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Science is complicated because the idea includes “method” (philosophy of science), “organization” (sociology of science), “events” (history of science), and “funding” (politics of science). What we will do is integrate these different aspects of the idea of science into a complete description of scientific research – a totality of science. And we will use an odd term for this integration; we will call it “managing science.”

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Notes

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    There are several biographies of Ernest Rutherford, among which are by those by Heilbron (2003), Pasachoff (2005) and by Reeves (2008).

  2. 2.

    An history of the early years of NSF is (Lomask, NSF 76-18).

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Betz, F. (2011). Totality of Science. In: Managing Science. Innovation, Technology, and Knowledge Management. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7488-4_1

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