ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that whether the studies offer decision-makers an objective form of knowledge that can then be applied in the interests of society. It suggests that the Carnegie Council, the Advisory Committee, and the Family Impact Seminar are engaged in a language game or form of discourse in which assertions of fact and principles of value cannot be separated. The chapter argues that facts and value reciprocally influence one another in the policy analyses and that the definition, investigation, and solution of problems are guided by the preconceptions that researchers bring to their inquiries. It outlines new ways of understanding language games, social science, and public policy that enhance the capacity to choose and construct people own futures. The chapter argues that the emperor of policy science is without clothes, but that he is dressed in a garb very different from the one he professes to wear.
