The Collapse of the Fact/Value Dichotomy and Other Essays
- ISBN-10
- 0674009053
- ISBN-13
- 9780674009059
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 190
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2002
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Authors
- Hilary Putnam, Cogan University Professor Emeritus Hilary Putnam
Description
Although it is on occasion important and useful to distinguish between factual claims and value judgments, the distinction becomes, Hilary Putnam argues, positively harmful when identified with a dichotomy between the objective and the purely "subjective."".
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