The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.
The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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2002.
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N121.8/23
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ix, 190 p. ; 22 cm.
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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?...
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Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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2002.
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"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...
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The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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