Alienation and value-neutrality / A.J. Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loughlin, A. J., 1965-

Series:

Avebury series in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reason.

Alienation (Philosophy).

Values.

Reasoning.

Physical Description:

vi, 176 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, 1998.

Contents:

1. Destructive Conceptions of Rationality

1. Under-estimating the Rational Subject 1

2. Means-end Rationality 16

2. Knowledge and the Knowing Subject

1. Knowing' as a Form of Interaction 25

2. The Individual and Claims to Knowledge 30

3. Self-chosen Values, Imposed Values and Alienation 38

3. Common-sense Realism and Rational Action

1. Popper: his Commitments to Realism and Fallibilism 48

2. Facts, Values and Relations 52

4. Alienation and the Social Scientist

1. The Authoritarian Assumption 62

2. The Denial of Objective Value in Social Science 71

5. Repercussions of a Science-Dominated Conception of Reason

1. The Overthrow of Restrictive Frameworks 79

2. The Science and Art of Reasoning 87

3. Restrictive Rationality and the Fake Morality of Modern Liberalism 90

6. A Closer Look at Scientific Method

1. From Means/Ends to Programme/Prognosis: Myardal's Solution to the Problem of Bias 95

2. Background Knowledge and the Rational Selection of Theories 107

7. Ideology and Bias

1. Defining the Terms 123

2. Value-neutrality as an Obstacle to Progress 131

3. Science and Ideology 138

8. Today's Ideology

1. Science, Modern Liberalism and the Market Mechanism 146.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-176).

ISBN:

1840141905

OCLC:

40120039