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Foundations for a Scientific Analysis of Value

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  • © 1981

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Authors:
  1. Victor Kraft
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Editors:
  1. Henk L. Mulder

    1. University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Vienna Circle Collection (VICC, volume 15)

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Victor Kraft
    Pages 1-9

  3. Value Concepts

    • Victor Kraft
    Pages 10-21

  4. Value as a Characteristic: A Psychological Analysis

    • Victor Kraft
    Pages 22-128

  5. Value Judgements

    • Victor Kraft
    Pages 129-181

  6. The Science of Value

    • Victor Kraft
    Pages 182-187

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 188-198
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About this book

In English-speaking countries Victor Kraft is known principally for his account of the Vienna Circle. ! That group of thinkers has exercised in recent decades a significant influence not only on the philosophy of the western world, but also, at least indirectly, on that of the East, where there is now taking place a slow but clearly irresistible erosion of dogmatic Marxism by ways of think­ ing derived from a modem scientific conception of the world. Kraft's work as historian of the Vienna Circle has led to his being classed, without further qua1ification, as a neo-positivist philosopher. It is, however, only partially correct to count him as such. To be sure, he belonged to the group named, he took part in its meetings, and he drew from it suggestions central to his own work; but he did not belong to the hard core of the Circle and was a con­ scious opponent of certain radical tendencies espoused, at least from time to time, by some of its members. Evidence of this is provided by the theory of value now presented in English translation, since no less a thinker than Rudolf Carnap had, originally at any rate, obeyed a very narrowly conceived criterion of sense and declared value judgements to be senseless.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Henk L. Mulder

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Foundations for a Scientific Analysis of Value

  • Authors: Victor Kraft

  • Editors: Henk L. Mulder

  • Series Title: Vienna Circle Collection

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8397-7

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1981

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1211-0Published: 30 June 1981

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-277-1212-7Published: 30 June 1981

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-8397-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 198

  • Additional Information: Originally published in German

  • Topics: Philosophy of Science, History, general

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