In 1911 he drew a distinction, sometimes obliterated by his followers, between the complementary disciplines of jurisprudence (a science of values) and sociology (a science of facts).
Aesthetics is thus a science of values.
The New York City Department of Education, a pioneer in the science of value-added assessment, can now calculate a teacher's worth to the third decimal point by using a few very long formulas.
one who has sensed the deepest self and acts out of that consciousness, [communicating it to others],…gives moral guidance,…lays down the science of values, draws out the blueprints for social reconstruction, and persuades the world to accept the high ends of life.
The relevant question is not how to rid science of values but, instead, to ask which values and whose values belong?
The focus area in PISA 2006 was science, and attitudinal surveys on the assessment considered several different aspects of attitudes related to science (e.g., enjoyment of science, perceived value of science, etc).
My evolution course is the one course in which I devote considerable time to reviewing the basic nature of science including: what science is, what science is not, the methods of science, the values of science, the implications of the scientific view, etc.
Accordingly, the material distinction that has to replace the customary distinction between natural sciences and Geisteswissenschaften is the distinction between the sciences of nature (value-free objects) and the sciences of culture (value-related objects).
The administration's blunderbuss approach to reforming the space program threatens to repeat the failures of the space station, squeezing out an enormous range of exciting science while creating nothing of value.
Axiology, (from Greek axios, "worthy"; logos, "science"), also called Theory Of Value, the philosophical study of goodness, or value, in the widest sense of these terms.
