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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Putnam, Hilary (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Sen, Amartya, > 1933-
Sen, Amartya Kumar.
Sen, Amartya > 1933-
Sen, Amartya Kumar, > 1933-
Values.
Facts (Philosophy)
Welfare economics.
Valeurs (Philosophie)
Faits (Philosophie)
Économie du bien-être.
PHILOSOPHY / General
Values
Welfare economics
Wertphilosophie
Waarden.
Feiten.
Welvaartseconomie.
Fait (Philosophie)
Jugement (Logique)
Jugement (Morale)
Rationalité (Philosophie)
Valeur (Philosophie)
Essay
essays.
Essays
Essays.
Essais.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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