The phrase "value neutrality" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used in academic or philosophical discussions about ethics and morality. Example: The concept of value neutrality in social sciences states that researchers should strive to maintain objectivity and avoid personal biases in their studies.
Max Weber's views on value neutrality and the relation between value neutral knowledge production and political passion are popularized in his 'twin-lectures'.
His claim that he was indifferent as to whether slavery was voted up or down was not simply a piece of callous value neutrality, but an effort to prove to Southern slave owners as well as to Northern anti-abolitionists that he was a man with whom all of them could do business.
The traditional conception of objectivity and the value neutrality, or the freedom of science from non-epistemic (moral, social, or political) values often associated with such a conception of objectivity, come into question.
Feminist epistemologists of science, such as Helen Longino [ 31] and Lynne Hankinson Nelson [ 32], have called for explicit recognition and critical appraisal of these values, as techniques that presume the value neutrality of science in fact distort scientific practice.
The Challenge of Value-Neutrality.
The core claim of value-neutrality, however, is impartiality.
Not for Mill the vaunted "value-neutrality" of modern social and political science.
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.
Feminist empiricists reply to the challenge of value-neutrality by extending Quine's argument that theory is underdetermined by evidence (Longino 1990, Nelson 1993).
Lacey (1999) usefully distinguishes the following claims of value-neutrality: (1) Autonomy: science progresses best when uninfluenced by social/political movements and values.
Even the staunchest defenders of the value-neutrality of science acknowledge that pragmatic factors legitimately influence the choice of objects of study.
