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" The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays / "
Hilary Putnam.
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BL
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704796
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b526985
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Putnam, Hilary.
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The collapse of the fact/value dichotomy and other essays /\ Hilary Putnam.
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First Harvard University Press paperback edition.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: Harvard University Press,, 2004.
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ix, 190 pages ;; 21 cm
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0674013808 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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Sen, Amartya,1933-
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Facts (Philosophy)
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Values.
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Welfare economics.
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