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Instrumental action — (also known as goal instrumental action, zweckrational ) is a social action pursued after evaluating its consequences and consideration of the various means to achieve it. They are usually planned and taken after considering costs and… … Wikipedia
Instrumental value — (or extrinsic value, contributory value) is the value of objects, both physical objects and abstract objects, not as ends in themselves but a means of achieving something else. It is often contrasted with items of intrinsic value. It is studied… … Wikipedia
Instrumental rationality — Two views of instrumental rationality can be discerned in modern philosophy: one view comes from social philosophy and critical theory, another comes from natural philosophy. The view from critical theory and social philosophyIn social and… … Wikipedia
Instrumental conception of technology — The instrumental conception of technology is the phrase used by Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek to describe the theory that technological artefacts are value neutral [Mary Tiles and Hans Oberdiek, Living in a Technological Culture: Human Tools and… … Wikipedia
Instrumental (disambiguation) — An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without any sort of vocals.Instrumental may also refer to:*Instrumental case, a grammatical case, also called the eighth case *extrinsic, as in instrumental value in value theoryInstrumentals… … Wikipedia
instrumental reason — See critical theory … Dictionary of sociology
Stakeholder theory — The stakeholder theory is a theory of organizational management and business ethics that addresses morals and values in managing an organization. [Cite book |last=Phillips, R. |first=Robert |coauthors=Edward Freeman |title=Stakeholder Theory and… … Wikipedia
Critical theory — Horkheimer, Adorno, Habermas David Rasmussen HEGEL, MARX AND THE IDEA OF A CRITICAL THEORY Critical theory1 is a metaphor for a certain kind of theoretical orientation which owes its origin to Hegel and Marx, its systematization to Horkheimer and … History of philosophy
learning theory — ▪ psychology Introduction any of the proposals put forth to explain changes in behaviour produced by practice, as opposed to other factors, e.g., physiological development. A common goal in defining any psychological (psychology)… … Universalium
Value theory — encompasses a range of approaches to understanding how, why and to what degree people should value things; whether the thing is a person, idea, object, or anything else. This investigation began in ancient philosophy, where it is called axiology… … Wikipedia
