The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays 0674009053, 0674013808, 2002068617
If philosophy has any business in the world, it is the clarification of our thinking and the clearing away of ideas that
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English Year 2004
Table of contents :
Preface
Introduction
I. The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy
1. The Empiricist Background
2. The Entanglement of Fact and Value
3. Fact and Value in the World of Amartya Sen
II. Rationality and Value
4. Sen’s “Prescriptivist” Beginnings
5. On the Rationality of Preferences
6. Are Values Made or Discovered?
7. Values and Norms
8. The Philosophers of Science’s Evasion of Values
Notes
Index
Preface
Introduction
I. The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy
1. The Empiricist Background
2. The Entanglement of Fact and Value
3. Fact and Value in the World of Amartya Sen
II. Rationality and Value
4. Sen’s “Prescriptivist” Beginnings
5. On the Rationality of Preferences
6. Are Values Made or Discovered?
7. Values and Norms
8. The Philosophers of Science’s Evasion of Values
Notes
Index
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