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On intellectual and instrumental values in science
ACM SIGACT News, 2012This opinionated essay discusses the role of intellectual and instrumental values in scientific fields, and the way these values evolve due to internal and external forces. It identifies two sources of the decline of intellectual values within a scientific field: (1) the direct intervention of outsiders in the dynamics of (successful) scientific fields,
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2023
Abstract This chapter begins a retail case against the idea that truth confers value on beliefs. It addresses the case of instrumental value. Does the truth of a proposition confer instrumental value on states of believing it? Instrumentally valuable beliefs help us to achieve our goals. The chapter argues that truth as such doesn’t make
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Abstract This chapter begins a retail case against the idea that truth confers value on beliefs. It addresses the case of instrumental value. Does the truth of a proposition confer instrumental value on states of believing it? Instrumentally valuable beliefs help us to achieve our goals. The chapter argues that truth as such doesn’t make
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Instrumental Values and the Popularity of Instrumental Leaders
Social Forces, 1961Varying degrees of overlap between instrumental and expressive hierarchies have been reported. All hypothesis which accounts for such disparity is that degree of correspondence between leader status and popularity is associated with the extent to which the instrumental activities of a group are dominant values for the group.
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Are relational values different in practice to instrumental values?
Ecosystem Services, 2020Abstract Relational values have been proposed as a more inclusive alternative to instrumental and intrinsic values of nature. Although theoretically different, the empirical work to ascertain whether relational values are in practice different to instrumental values has been scarce.
Sin Ching See +3 more
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The Instrumental Value of Explanations
Philosophy Compass, 2011Abstract Scientific and ‘intuitive’ or ‘folk’ theories are typically characterized as serving three critical functions: prediction, explanation, and control. While prediction and control have clear instrumental value, the value of explanation is less transparent.
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An Instrument to Measure Professional Nursing Values
Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 2000Purpose: To describe the Nursing Professional Values Scale (NPVS), its development, reliability and validity, and its derivation from the Code of Ethics of the American Nurses Association.Design: The NPVS was tested on 599 subjects, including baccalaureate and masters' students and practicing nurses.
D, Weis, M J, Schank
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Value Corruption: The Effects of Instrumentality on the Desacralization of Values
Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016Sacred values like environmental-protection, patriotism, and diversity have become labels frequently employed by organizations, marketers, and leaders to yield profits and favorable reputations.
Rachel Ruttan, Loran F. Nordgren
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Values, Power and Instrumentality
Educational Management & Administration, 1999The policy agenda of the Labour government embodies both continuities and discontinuities with its Conservative predecessor. Its new departures, especially those which involve increased central direction from Whitehall, imply a number of assumptions about the values which should underpin the management of the education service, the ways in which power
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The Instrumental Value of Expression
2018Respecting expressive activity enables the expressive ecosystem to generate a range of benefits related to knowledge, practical reasoning, aesthetic experience, and other aspects of flourishing, as well as to institutional accountability, the discovery of valuable forms of life, and the effective functioning of markets.
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Instrumentality — terminality values in relation to age
Experimental Aging Research, 1978Terminal and instrumental value preference was investigated by asking young adults and older adults to respond to a modified version of the Rokeach Value Survey. Terminal and instrumental values were almost identical among the age and sex groups. Thus, the present data provide no evidence to support the hypothesis that older adults have a higher ...
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