Meaning in Science, Evaluative Scientific Concepts, and the Fact-Value Separability of Mixed Social Science

科学意义、评价性科学概念以及混合社会科学的事实-价值可分离性

基本信息

批准号：
2607368
负责人：
金额：
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依托单位：
University of Bristol
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Studentship
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2021 至无数据
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2607368
关键词：
Meaning Science Evaluative Scientific Concepts

项目摘要

I am proposing to examine, in detail, Hilary Putnam's claim that the 'irreducibly evaluative' content of our evaluative concepts makes empiricalsocial scientific inquiries into those concepts 'fact-value inseparable.' In so doing I will develop a taxonomization of the different senses in whichscience can be 'fact-value inseparable.'To facilitate the clear development of this taxonomization I will develop an explicit theory of meaning, specifically for science, using normativeinferentialist semantics. I will also draw on the philosophical literature on the quantification of knowledge to develop formal models illustratinghow questions, and answers to them, can have 'degrees of irreducibly evaluative informational content.' These models will help to make precisewhat might otherwise seem to be vague and therefore unserious claims about fact-value separabillity.I will apply these ideas to a series of detailed case studies on the measurement of evaluative concepts from different ends of a spectrum ofevaluative informational content. In so doing, I will expect to partially vindicate, and crucially clarify, Putnam's argument.This analysis has the potential to (1) facilitate methodological reflection and adjustment which can help make empirical inquiries into evaluativeconcepts more transparent and useful, and (2) show how we can respond to claims which exaggerate the 'fact-value inseparability' of socialscience, in a way that potentially promotes undue scepticism about social science.

我建议详细研究希拉里·普特南（Hilary Putnam）的说法，即我们评估概念的“不可否认的评估”内容使经验性社会学的科学询问对这些概念的“事实价值不可分割”。通过这样做，我将建立对不同感官的分类法，这是“事实价值不可分割的”。我还将借鉴有关知识量化的哲学文献，以开发形式模型说明问题的正式模型，以及对它们的答案，可以具有“不可否认的评估信息内容”。这些模型将有助于使否则可能看起来含糊不清的问题，因此对事实价值分离的主张毫不留情。我将将这些想法应用于一系列详细的案例研究，以衡量从评估概念的测量，从evaluality信息内容的各个方面进行评估概念。 In so doing, I will expect to partially vindicate, and crucially clarify, Putnam's argument.This analysis has the potential to (1) facilitate methodological reflection and adjustment which can help make empirical inquiries into evaluativeconcepts more transparent and useful, and (2) show how we can respond to claims which exaggerate the 'fact-value inseparability' of socialscience, in a way that potentially promotes undue对社会科学的怀疑。