Values as constraints on affordances: Perceiving and acting properly

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 22 (3):263–294 (1992)
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Abstract

At the bottom of all human activities are “values,” the conviction that some things “ought to be” and others not. Science, however, with its immense interest in mere facts seems to lack all understanding of such‘requiredness.’… A science … which would seriously admit nothing but indifferent facts … could not fail to destroy itself

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Reuben Baron
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Metaphors we live by.George Lakoff & Mark Johnson - 1980 - Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Edited by Mark Johnson.
After Virtue.A. MacIntyre - 1981 - Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 46 (1):169-171.
The nature of human values.Milton Rokeach - 1973 - New York,: Free Press.

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