Neutralidad de las descripciones y compromiso del investigador

Juan Jiménez-Albornoz

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Neutrality of descriptions and commitment of the researcher

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Juan Jiménez-Albornoz Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana, Santiago http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4403-1178

No. 64 (2019): March

Abstract

The distinction between facts judgments and value judgments is the basis, at the same time, of both the neutrality of descriptions and the inherent commitment of the researcher, without devaluing the validity of value judgments. It is relevant to acknowledge the difference between what grounds a fact judgment from what grounds a value judgment. What is invalid -as fact judgment and as value judgment- is the attempt to generate neutral recommendations only from facts, the technocratic idea of an intervention that do not involves commitment. There is no such thing as a neutral action, and the real of neutrality is reduce only to description.

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value neutrality, commitment, fact judgments, value judgments, positive normative

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Jiménez-Albornoz, J. (2019). Neutrality of descriptions and commitment of the researcher. Cinta De Moebio. Revista De Epistemología De Ciencias Sociales, (64), 99–113. Retrieved from https://actascoloquiogiannini.uchile.cl/index.php/CDM/article/view/52970