Abstract
In recent years, for a variety of reasons, increasing numbers of philosophers of science have been looking to government agencies as potential sources of support for their research. While their main concern has been with specific matters such as the amount of money that is actually available from various agencies, for the kinds of work they want to do, it must be recognized that there are numerous theoretical questions that are necessarily associated with the pursuit of government funds, including the basic question raised in the title of this paper. Although these theoretical questions are important, and may even comprise part of the subject-matter area of philosophy of science: (for reasons to be specified in section 2), to the best of my knowledge they have not been discussed to date in any public documents.
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