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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.
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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.
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.
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 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.
The VNT, and the idea of scientific objectivity as value freedom, could then be saved for the case of individual scientific reasoning.
Among the features that feminists have criticized are that it is committed to pure objectivity and value-neutrality, and uses an unlocated, disembodied, disinterested, autonomous individual reasoner, knower, and agent.
(Note that defenders of this latter, "skeptical" view need not read Nietzsche as a global anti-realist — i.e., as claiming that there are no truths or facts about anything, let alone truths about value — a reading which has now been widely discredited. There is, on the skeptical view at issue here, a special problem about the objectivity of value).
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