Ends and Means, Values and Virtues
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Philosopher: It has taken me a while but I think I now see what social software is trying to get at. Its ultimate driving force seems to be a desire to help solve social problems. For this, one should of course understand these problems and get a good grasp of their structure. So, and that’s the second element, we focus on the analysis of such social problems. Finally, the way of going about in both the analysis and the formulation of the possible solutions is to make use of formal techniques that originate from a variety of disciplines— economics, logic, computer science. And this is what gives the enterprise its cross-disciplinary flavor.
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