# Value Judgments and the Human Sciences

**URL:** <https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/excursions/value-judgments-and-the-human-sciences>

**By** George H. Smith

**Published:** August 31, 2016

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George H. Smith examines the problem of whether the human sciences can be value-free, and if so in what sense.

[Originally published in essay form on January 10, 2014.](https://www.libertarianism.org/columns/value-judgments-human-sciences)

_Narrated by Daniel Hyland._