Perceiving facts and values

Philosophy 73 (1):5-19 (1998)
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In a memorable passage near the beginning of William James asks us to imagine a world in which all our dearest social utopias are realized, and then to imagine that this world is offered to us at the price of one lost soul at the farthest edge of the universe suffering eternal, intense, lonely pain. Then he asks

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Ruth Anna Putnam
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