Críticas:
"Hume's and much 20th-century moral philosophy contrasted moral with factual judgments and led people to conclude that the former, unlike the latter, are subjective in the sense of not being rationally supportable. Putnam... believes that the contrast is ill conceived and that the conclusion is both unwarranted and false. He acknowledges the usefulness of the fact/value distinction but denies that anything metaphysical follows from it... Putnam covers such matters as imperative logic, economics vis-a-vis ethics, and preference theory and such thinkers as V. Walsh, L. Robbins, and R. M. Hare, A fine philosophical workout." - Robert Hoffman, Library Journal"
Reseña del editor:
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." Lively, concise, and wise, his book prepares the way for a renewed mutual fruition of philosophy and the social sciences.
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