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Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity

by Giancarlo Marchetti

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

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This collection offers a synoptic view of current philosophical debates concerning the relationship between facts and values, bringing together a wide spectrum of contributors committed to testing the validity of this dichotomy, exploring alternatives, and assessing their implications. The assumption that facts and values inhabit distinct, unbridgeable conceptual and experiential domains has long dominated scientific and philosophical discourse, but this separation has been seriously called into question from a number of corners. The original essays here collected offer a diversity of responses to fact-value dichotomy, including contributions from Hilary Putnam and Ruth Anna Putnam who are rightly credited with revitalizing philosophical interest in this alleged opposition. Both they, and many of our contributors, are in agreement that the relationship between epistemic developments and evaluative attitudes cannot be framed as a conflict between descriptive and normative understanding. Each chapter demonstrates how and why contrapositions between science and ethics, between facts and values, and between objective and subjective are false dichotomies. Values cannot simply be separated from reason. Facts and Values will therefore prove essential reading for analytic and continental philosophers alike, for theorists of ethics and meta-ethics, and for philosophers of economics and law.
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  • Title

    Facts and Values: The Ethics and Metaphysics of Normativity

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Routledge

  • Published

    June 2018

  • Weight

    418g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9781138615410

  • ISBN-10

    1138615412

  • Eden Code

    4734580

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