PLSC 3603 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship, Face Validity, Research Question
19 Sep 2018
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Scope ( what do political scientist actually do?: traditional political philosophers, scientific, normative, instrumental , means end analysis , means to meet goal , how do we get to a particular goal. N-normative- concerned with the best state or best type of society. I- instrumental (or applied) value judgements (means -ends analysis/ rational choice theory) Empirical statements may be true or false, but they must be verifiable (what odes this mean?). Also note that empirical statements are always contingent (open to additional questions and testing). Normative propositions satte value judgements ( no amount of empirical evidence can disprove a value judgment) Science is said to be neutral with regard to values (key question: is the preference for science a value position?) Some say that the truth or falsity of normative statements can be demonstrated( these folks are called cognitivists) Utilitarians (the greater good for everyone), intuitionism(, teleology. Telling people what they ought to do, rather then what is.
