James Kern Feibleman

James Kern Feibleman (1904 - 1987) was a philosopher at Tulane University, Louisiana. From 1952 he edited Tulane Studies in Philosophy. He styled his system as axiological realism.

Early life Feibleman was born July 13, 1904, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Returning to New Orleans, he worked in his family's department store and took up a study of business philosophy with Julius Friend. Together they authored Science and the Spirit of Man (1933), The Unlimited Commodity (1936), and What Science Really Means (1937).

"John McClure the poet…was a big help to me in the days of my late adolescence...I used to go down on his night off and sit on the porch of his French Quarter home and drink the eggnog which his wife made and talk poetry with him...McClure’s advice was something I never forgot, and I shall always be grateful to him." "I sat in on mathematics courses given by my friends. I became a sort of hanger-on of the mathematics department, hoping to acquire by osmosis what I had refused to imbibe in the ordinary way by submission to discipline." "Justice is the demand for a system of laws", where a system is defined to be consistent, complete, and categorical. Feibleman adopted these terms from mathematical logic.

In 1969 Horizon Press published his autobiography The Way of a Man.