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Moral Description: Overcoming the Fact-Value Dichotomy in Social Research

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Author
Doughney, James R.
Accessioned
2010-06-22T15:33:11Z
Available
2010-06-22T15:33:11Z
Issued
2005-05-02
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Gambling Literature
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Social sciences -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects
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journal article
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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.
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Copyright © Masood Zangeneh, Editor-in-Chief, 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.
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Victoria University, Australia
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Victoria University, Australia
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eCOMMUNITY: International Journal of Mental Health & Addiction
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/9671
Uri
http://hdl.handle.net/1880/47876
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