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The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / Hilary Putnam.
Van Pelt Library B945.P873 C65 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Putnam, Hilary.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sen, Amartya, 1933-.
- Sen, Amartya.
- Values.
- Facts (Philosophy).
- Welfare economics.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 190 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
- Summary:
- Amartya Sen. Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.
- Contents:
- The empiricist background
- The entanglement of fact and value
- Fact and value in the world of Amartya Sen
- Sen's "prescriptivist" beginnings
- On the rationality of preferences
- Are values made or discovered?
- Values and norms
- The philosophers of science's evasion of values.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [147]-181) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674009053
- OCLC:
- 49806011
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