Fact Value Policy

Author : A. Harris Fairbanks
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 : 9780070198722
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fact, Value, Policy written by A. Harris Fairbanks and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1994 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fact, Value, Policy is a reader/rhetoric designed for second semester freshman courses or more advanced courses on argumentation. It presents a theory of argument that distinguishes arguments of fact that depend on casual reasoning, and arguments of value that depend on analytical reasoning. Policy arguments are discussed as a special kind of claim that combines factual and evaluative issues. This coherent presentation of theory is coordinated with cross-curricular readings.

Author : Ryan, Phil
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447364562
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts, Values and the Policy World written by Ryan, Phil and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many policy analysts – and citizens interested in public issues – believe that rigorous thought should be uncontaminated by values, which are merely subjective. Policy analysis, however, is about what is worth doing and therefore inherently values based. This accessible book reveals the damage that this contradiction inflicts on policy analysis and society. It also demonstrates the real-world failings of various influential alternatives to the ‘value-free’ ideal. By showing that values are amenable to critical analysis, this book provides a solid foundation for a comprehensive approach that reimagines the scope and role of policy analysis in contemporary society.

Author : Judith Jarvis Thomson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262024983
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fact and Value written by Judith Jarvis Thomson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of essays, which reflect the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work. The diversity of topics discussed in this book reflects the breadth of Judith Jarvis Thomson's philosophical work. Throughout her long career at MIT, Thomson's straightforward approach and emphasis on problem-solving have shaped philosophy in significant ways. Some of the book's contributions discuss specific moral and political issues such as abortion, self-defense, the rights and obligations of prospective fathers, and political campaign finance. Other contributions concern the foundations of moral theory, focusing on hedonism, virtue ethics, the nature of nonconsequentialism, and the objectivity of moral claims. Finally, contributions in metaphysics and epistemology discuss the existence of sets, the structures reflected in conditional statements, and the commitments of testimony. Contributors Jonathan Bennett, Richard L. Cartwright, Joshua Cohen, N. Ann Davis, Catherine Z. Elgin, Gilbert Harman, Barbara Herman, Frances Myrna Kamm, Claudia Mills, T.M. Scanlon, Ernest Sosa

Author : Hilary Putnam
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674013808
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays written by Hilary Putnam and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philosophical thought: the idea that while factual claims can be rationally established or refuted, claims about value are wholly subjective, not capable of being rationally argued for or against. Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective." Putnam explores the arguments that led so much of the analytic philosophy of language, metaphysics, and epistemology to become openly hostile to the idea that talk of value and human flourishing can be right or wrong, rational or irrational; and by which, following philosophy, social sciences such as economics have fallen victim to the bankrupt metaphysics of Logical Positivism. Tracing the problem back to Hume's conception of a "matter of fact" as well as to Kant's distinction between "analytic" and "synthetic" judgments, Putnam identifies a path forward in the work of Amartya Sen. Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.

Author : Phil Ryan
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447364554
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts, Values and the Policy World written by Phil Ryan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2023-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the prevailing contradiction within policy analysis, that rigorous thought should be uncontaminated by values, despite policy analysis being inherently values based. In resolving the issue, this book provides a new, solid foundation for policy analysis.

Author : Giancarlo Marchetti
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317354672
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts and Values written by Giancarlo Marchetti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a wide spectrum of contributors committed to testing the validity of this dichotomy, exploring alternatives, and assessing their implications. The assumption that facts and values inhabit distinct, unbridgeable conceptual and experiential domains has long dominated scientific and philosophical discourse, but this separation has been seriously called into question from a number of corners. The original essays here collected offer a diversity of responses to fact-value dichotomy, including contributions from Hilary Putnam and Ruth Anna Putnam who are rightly credited with revitalizing philosophical interest in this alleged opposition. Both they, and many of our contributors, are in agreement that the relationship between epistemic developments and evaluative attitudes cannot be framed as a conflict between descriptive and normative understanding. Each chapter demonstrates how and why contrapositions between science and ethics, between facts and values, and between objective and subjective are false dichotomies. Values cannot simply be separated from reason. Facts and Values will therefore prove essential reading for analytic and continental philosophers alike, for theorists of ethics and meta-ethics, and for philosophers of economics and law.

Author : Louis C. Charland
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027291667
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fact and Value in Emotion written by Louis C. Charland and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-03-06 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a large amount of scientific work on emotion in psychology, neuroscience, biology, physiology, and psychiatry, which assumes that it is possible to study emotions and other affective states, objectively. Emotion science of this sort is concerned primarily with 'facts' and not 'values', with 'description' not 'prescription'. The assumption behind this vision of emotion science is that it is possible to distinguish factual from evaluative aspects of affectivity and emotion, and study one without the other. But what really is the basis for distinguishing fact and value in emotion and affectivity? And can the distinction withstand careful scientific and philosophical scrutiny? The essays in this collection all suggest that the problems behind this vision of emotion science may be more complex than is commonly supposed.

Author : Wolfgang Köhler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780871401076
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Place of Value in a World of Facts written by Wolfgang Köhler and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1976 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can values operate in a world of facts and still be more than indifferent facts themselves?

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000235742
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics, Values, And Public Policy written by Frank Fischer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addressed to the growing concerns about norms and values in policy assessment, this study develops a methodology for the political evaluation of public policy. It is designed to move policy evaluation beyond its current emphasis on efficient achievement of goals, focusing instead on the assessment of the acceptability of the goals themselves, emplo

Author : José Castro Caldas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136328637
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Facts, Values and Objectivity in Economics written by José Castro Caldas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Economics an ‘objective’ or ‘positive’ science, independent of ethical and political positions? The financial crisis that began in 2007 gave rise to renewed doubts regarding the ‘objectivity’ of economics and brought into the public arena a debate that was previously confined to academia. A remarkable feature of the public debate on the value neutrality of economics since then was that it not only involved indictments of ideological biases in economic theory, but also the attribution of the crisis itself to the unethical orientation of economic agents, of economists acting as experts and of ‘economic science’ itself. The contributors to this volume believe that economists of all persuasions are once again compelled to probe the normative foundations of their discipline and give a public account of their doubts and conclusions.