Log in to save to my catalogue

The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.

The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essa...

The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKDW4dadxb

The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.

About this item

Full title

The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.

Author / Creator

Publisher

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Date

2002.

Call Numbers

N121.8/23

Record Identifier

74VKDW4dadxb

MMS ID

991019032619702626

Language

English

Formats

Physical Description

Physical content

ix, 190 p. ; 22 cm.

Contents

I. The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy. 1. The Empiricist Background. 2. The Entanglement of Fact and Value. 3. Fact and Value in the World of Amartya Sen -- II. Rationality and Value. 4. Sen's "Prescriptivist" Beginnings. 5. On the Rationality of Preferences. 6. Are Values Made or Discovered?...

Publication information

Publisher

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.

Place of Publication

Massachusetts

Date Published

2002.

More information

Scope and Contents

Summary

"Putnam explores the arguments that led so much of the analytic philosophy of language, metaphysics and epistemology to become openly hostile to the idea that talk of value and human flourishing can be right or wrong, rational or irrational; and by which, following philosophy, social sciences such as economics have fallen victim to the bankrupt met...

Alternative Titles

Full title

The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.

Authors, Artists and Contributors

Author / Creator

Notes

General note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers

Primary Identifiers

Call Numbers

N121.8/23

Record Identifier

74VKDW4dadxb

Permalink

https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKDW4dadxb

Other Identifiers

ISBN

0674013808 :

9780674009059

0674009053

9780674009059 :

0674009053 :

9780674013803 (pbk.)

0674013808 (pbk.)

9780674013803 :

DDC

121.8

MMS ID

991019032619702626

How to access this item

1 of 0Request as a Library member