© 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC About this chapter Cite this chapter Brinkmann, S. (2011). Facts, Values, and the Naturalistic Fallacy in Psychology. In: Psychology as a Moral Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7067-1_5 ...
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