================================================================================ RED CIENTIFICA PERUANA NOTIRED ================================================================================ From: Gene V Glass Within the next 48 hours, the Education Policy Analysis Archives will publish Volume 1, Number 9. An abstract of the paper, which is about 1,000 lines long, is attached to this letter. Persons wishing to subcsribe to the Archives may do so by sending an email letter to LISTSERV@ASUACAD.BITNET (or LISTSERV@asuvm.inre.asu.edu) and making the single line contents of the letter read as follows: SUB EDPOLYAR +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ EDUCATION POLICY ANALYSIS ARCHIVES Vol. 1 No. 9 Evidence, Ethics and Social Policy Dilemmas Steven I. Miller L. Arthur Safer School of Education Loyola University Chicago 820 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611 Abstract Within the philosophy of the social sciences, the relationship between evidence, ethics, and social policy is in need of further analysis. The present paper is an attempt to argue that while important social policies can, and perhaps ought to be, grounded in ethical theory, they are seldom articulated in this fashion due to the ambiguity surrounding the "evidence condition." Using a consequentialist-utilitarian framework, and a case study of a policy dilemma, the authors analyze the difficulties associated with resolving policy-based dilemmas which must appeal to evidential support as a justification for an ethical stand. Implication for the relevance of ethics to social policy formulation are discussed in detail. -------**********======================================**********-------- GENE V GLASS Glass@ASU.BITNET College of Education Glass@ASU.EDU Arizona State University 602-965-2692 Tempe, AZ 85287-2411 ============================================================================== .