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Research on values has been developed in the past without taking to account the social nature of the problems involved or without using the framework of cybernetics. As a result we have Moore’s theory of the naturalistic fallacy in ethics and Weber’s theory of value-free social sciences. However, the presuppositions behind these epistemological positions cannot be maintained in view of the changes in the conception of the social and cultural role of science and technology. The new foundations for social assessment offer a reconstruction of the problem of values in the socio-cybernetics of scientific thought.
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Cornelis, A. (1986). New Socio-Cybernetic Foundations for Value Systems. In: Trappl, R. (eds) Cybernetics and Systems ’86. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4634-7_38
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