Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Part I: General Principles
Chapter 1: Value Basics
Chapter 2: Value Attribution
Chapter 3: Rational Choice and Value Complementarity
Chapter 4: Integration Problems
Chapter 5: Rationality Issues
Chapter 6: Rational Choice and Merit Complementarity
Chapter 7: Circularity Issues
Part II: Cognitive Evaluation
Chapter 8: Evaluating Cognitive Significance
Chapter 9: Epistemic Evaluation
Chapter 10: Allocating Scientific Credit
Chapter 11: Evaluating Contention Tenacity
Synopsis
This book is a survey of key issues in the theory of evaluation aimed at exhibiting and clarifying the rational nature of the thought-procedures involved. By means of theoretical analysis and explanatory case studies, this volume shows how evaluation is--or should be--a rational procedure directed at appropriate objectives. Above all, it maintains the objectivity of rational evaluation.