Toward a diagnosis of diagnostic sciences. A reflection
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As illustrated by the 2011 diagnoses of social violence in several Mexican municipalities (diagnoses ordered by the Executive Secretariat of the National System for Law Enforcement, evaluating the “health condition” of communities and human groups is an ordinary activity undertaken by social scientists. Notwithstanding this ordinariness, the author of this essay reflects on the scope and limits of these diagnoses. Although he does not question the diagnoses’ objectivity, he warns about embracing modern emotivism, which denies reasonable grounds to value judgment: doing so would make the diagnoses nonsensical. He also warns against merely declaring the value judgment without attempting to identify its grounds, even if they are not fully reasonable but deficient. Consequently, he recommends that in doing a scientific diagnosis, the scientist should inform the grounds for his value judgment to the public. Based on MacIntyre and Taylor, the author recommends recovering the “good reasons” belonging properly to moral reasoning.
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