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Article: Neopragmatic thought and counseling values: reconsidering the role of values in counseling from an alternative epistemological foundation.(Essay)
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- Counseling and Values
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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The history of Western philosophical thought has been dominated by the search for transcendent truth. As a consequence of this history, various epistemological dualisms (such as fact/value and appearance/reality) have come to structure modes of inquiry. Reliance on such dualisms has resulted in a degradation of values discourse, which, along with other "soft" forms of inquiry, is often viewed as epistemologically inferior to the "hard" sciences. However, particularly within the last century, philosophers have proposed compelling challenges to these dualisms, which, in turn, have massive implications for values discourse. These challenges are overviewed, and implications ...
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