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http://hdl.handle.net/1880/47876| Title: | Moral Description: Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy in Social Research |
| Authors: | Doughney, James R. |
| Keywords: | Social sciences -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects |
| Issue Date: | 2-May-2005 |
| Publisher: | eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction |
| Citation: | Doughney, J. (2005). Moral description: Overcoming the fact-value dichotomy in social research. eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction, 2(2), 6-12. |
| Abstract: | Values in social research are a vexed question. However, they cannot and should not be avoided. This article argues against the familiar fact-value dichotomy and presents a cognitive approach to values based inter alia on the views of the philosophers Julius Kovesi (1967) and Hilary Putnam (1990, 2002) and the economist philosopher Amartya Sen (1982, 1987). The article concludes that rejecting the fact-value dichotomy does not mean that "anything goes." On the contrary, it proposes reuniting facts and values in a common, factually-grounded and rational cognitive enterprise. |
| Description: | Copyright © Masood Zangeneh, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1880/47876 |
| Appears in Collections: | Gambling Literature |
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