Descriptive

ethics
Ethical
Instrumentalism
▫ Realist
▫ Instrumentalist

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Instrumentalism in the
philosophy of science
▫ View that scientific theories
merely as tools for solving
practical problems rather than as
meaningful descriptions.
▫ Does not necessarily believe in that
theory.

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Values
Values are not facts.
There are not such things as
Goodness, rightness, justice,
virtue, wickedness and evil.
Only a reflect upon what matters
to us.
Values are product
Outcome of our engagement with
the world and each other.
Interplay of the drives, appetites
and attitudes of human.
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 ethic is not merely an expression of

“ underlying drives and desires but,

more importantly, instrumental in
their continuing success..

(J.S. Biehl, 2005)

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John Dewey:
Instrumentalism
▫ Dewey’s particular version of
pragmatism, which he called
“instrumentalism,” is the view that
knowledge results from the
discernment of correlations between
events, or processes of change

▫ Dewey held that ideas are instruments,

or tools, that humans use to make
greater sense of the world