The paper compares the various theses that have been offered about valueneutrality in economics and examines the main available arguments in turn. The extreme non-neutrality thesis (universal value-impregnation) and the extreme neutrality thesis (there is no normative economics) are rebutted, and the analysis is then oriented towards settling the dispute between two intermediary variants. In co...

The present study provides normative data from a sample of 257 healthy children and 608 adults on a modified version of the Five-Point Test (5PT). The 5PT is a structured and standardized test measuring figural fluency functions. Interrater reliability, test-retest-reliability and construct validity of this measure were analyzed. The sensitivity of the task for cognitive disturbances of patient...

An assertion can be a factual claim or the expression of a value judgment. Since Hume the view that these are two incompatible types of assertions that cannot be connected by argumentation, has often been defended, and, more recently, has also been called into question. In the following paper I attempt to show that the truth both of a descriptive sentence and of a normative sentence is derived ...

Notwithstanding its importance, property law has eluded both a consistent definition and a unified conceptual framework. Indeed, modern property scholarship has utterly splintered the field. On the one hand, instrumentalists view property as nothing more than default contract rules. On the other hand, conceptualists proclaim the primacy of in rem, rights and specially privileged rights such as ...

5936 words 36634 signs 1. Epistemic normativity 2. Norms of rationality 3. Epistemic norms and concepts 4. The Ur-Norm of truth 5. Epistemic norms and epistemic values 1. Epistemic normativity When we evaluate our beliefs and our reasonings as justified or unjustified, good or bad, rational or irrational, we make, in a broad sense of the term, normative judgements about them. It is often said t...

Norms for a Danish adaptation of the Harvard Group Scale of Hypnotic Susceptibility, Form A (HGSHS:A) are presented. Four samples tested from 1988 to 1991 (n = 166, n = 54, n = 95, and n = 61) were pooled, resulting in an aggregate sample of 376 participants. The normative data were generally congruent with earlier normative studies with regard to score distribution, item difficulty levels, and...

Normative multiagent systems as a research area can be defined as the intersection of normative systems and multiagent systems [2]. With ‘normative’ we mean ‘conforming to or based on norms’, as in normative behavior or normative judgments. Other meanings of normative not considered here are ‘of, relating to, or determining norms or standards’, as in normative tests, or ‘prescribing norms’, as ...

Much of the research advocates a strong IT-business relationship $ the IT organisation is to make a value-added contribution to the business. while the research also highlights that in many organisations this relationship is poor, little guidance is provided as to how this ‘gap ’ might be bridged. The research reported in this paper 1s a longitudinal stud-v of three organisations that are activ...

Not acknowledging the history and metaphysics of the fact/value distinction has led to confusion about the difference between the normative and the cognitive, and disputes on whether there are ways to move from one side, facts, to the other, values. One solution is to recognize values as more "objective" than facts, and thus blur the common way of drawing this distinction. The origin of the dis...

In this paper we study how to characterize ethical agents in normative multi-agent systems. We adopt a proposition control game together with input/output logic. Norms create the normative status of strategies. Agents’ preference in proposition control games are changed by the normative status of strategies. We distinguish four ethical types of agents: moral, amoral, negatively impartial and po...