Exploring Fact and Value (Science, Ideology & Values Series) - Hardcover

Edel, Abraham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0878552294 ISBN 13: 9780878552290

Publisher: Routledge, 1980

Synopsis

The great twentieth-century dichotomy that has pervaded moral philosophy and value theory on the one hand and social science and social theory on the other, concerns this volume. Part one approaches this dichotomy between fact (knowledge/science) and value (worth/morality) from different angles. It opens with a general study of the way value and fact are construed, then locates where scientific materials enter into ethics.

Part two deals with issues of moral attitude and practical responsibility in the work of science and technology. Scientists' social responsibility as a function of changing social roles of science, and knowledge and responsibility in the professions are examined. In the concluding chapter Edel examines the dichotomy between fact and value as a social and an ideational phenomenon.

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Review

"A fine book and an important contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences.... Edel wields his analytic tools with the subtlety and grace of a master. The result is a profound book which not only does philosophy but shows how it ought to be done."

--Murray G. Murphy

"A fine book and an important contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences.... Edel wields his analytic tools with the subtlety and grace of a master. The result is a profound book which not only does philosophy but shows how it ought to be done."

--Murray G. Murphy

-A fine book and an important contribution to the philosophy of the social sciences.... Edel wields his analytic tools with the subtlety and grace of a master. The result is a profound book which not only does philosophy but shows how it ought to be done.-

--Murray G. Murphy

About the Author

Abraham Edel (1908-2007), a distinguished American moral and social philosopher, was research professor of philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania and before that the City College of New York. Some of his numerous books are Science and the Structure of Ethics, Aristotle and His Philosophy, and Ethical Judgment.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878552294
• ISBN 13: 9780878552290
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 369