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Siôn Simon, the minister for creative industries, said the panel would oversee the assessment of bids against criteria of objectivity, value for money, innovation, public benefit, and adherence to official procurement policies.
In "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice," he named five necessary criteria for new paradigms to emerge: accuracy (validated by experimental observation), consistency (both internally and with accepted theories), broad scope (explains more than it set out to), simplicity (Occam's razor) and fruitfulness (disclose new phenomena or previously unnoted relationships).
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Ecologists are discussing these issues among themselves: The ESA devoted a whole session to scientific objectivity, values, and advocacy at its annual meeting last August.
Because "fact" symbolizes objectivity and "value" suggests subjectivity, the relationship of value to fact is of fundamental importance in developing any theory of the objectivity of value and of value judgments.
A staunch defense of objectivity and value freedom may just expose our own narrow-mindedness.
The VNT, and the idea of scientific objectivity as value freedom, could then be saved for the case of individual scientific reasoning.
Studies have shown differing patterns of students' tolerance for ambiguity and uncertainty that appear to reflect extant attitudinal predispositions toward technology, objectivity, culture, value- and theory-ladeness, and the need for self-examination.
Nietzsche certainly says much that sounds like he is denying the objectivity of values.
There are at least two accounts of the objectivity of values that can be plausibly attributed to Berlin.
Feyerabend's writings on objectivity and values in science have an epistemic as well as a political dimension.
The ideal of objectivity as value-neutrality is justified as a psychological stance needed to guard against temptations toward wishful thinking and dogmatic, politically motivated or ideological reasoning.
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