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

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Putnam, Hilary
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2002.
Subjects:
Sen, Amartya, > 1933-
Values.
Facts (Philosophy)
Welfare economics.
Table of 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.