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The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays /

"If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that cloud the mind. In this book, one of the world's preeminent philosophers takes issue with an idea that has found an all-too-prominent place in popular culture and philo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Putnam, Hilary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2002.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Collapse of the fact/value dichotomy. Empiricist background
  • Entanglement of fact and value
  • Fact and value in the world of Amartya Sen
  • II. Rationality and value. Sen's "prescriptivist" beginnings
  • On the rationality of preferences
  • Are values made or discovered?
  • Values and norms
  • Philosophers of science's evasion of values.