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'''Felix Kaufmann''' (4 July 1895, [[Vienna]] -– 23 December 1949, [[New York City|New York]]) was an Austrian-American [[philosopher of law]].

Kaufmann studied [[jurisprudence]] and [[philosophy]] in [[Vienna]]. He became part of the legal-philosophical school of [[Hans Kelsen]]. From 1922 to 1938 he was a [[Privatdozent]] thereat the University of Vienna. During this time Kaufmann was associated with the [[Vienna Circle]]. He also wrote on the [[foundations of mathematics]] where, along with [[Hermann Weyl]] and [[Oskar Becker]], he was attempting to apply the [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]] of [[Edmund Husserl]] to [[constructive mathematics]].

In 1938, the conditions for [[Jewish]] scholars became too hard and he left for the USA. There he taught until his death as a law professor, in the Graduate Faculty of the [[New York School for Social Research]]. Kaufmann also aided fellow Austrian emigres in need of assistance during the pre-[[World War II|war]] years when the situation became dire for Jewish academics and scholars in [[Germany]] and [[Austria]]. Interceding on [[Karl Popper]]'s behalf, Popper was offered academic hospitality at [[Cambridge University]] and a stipend of £150 for one year - this offer was transferable, and [[Friedrich Waismann]] took it up when Popper went to [[New Zealand]] instead (see John Watkins in Proceedings of the British Academy, 94, 645-684, 652).

* ''Methodenlehre der Sozialwissenschaften'', 1936

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