axiologist

English

Etymology

axiology +‎ -ist

Noun

axiologist (plural axiologists)

  1. A person, especially a philosopher, who studies theory of value.
    • 1962, Robert S. Hartman, “Axiology as a science,”, in Philosophy of Science, volume 29, number 4, page 421:
      The moral philosophies are even more important to the moral scientist—the axiologist.
    • 1990, Thomas Hughes, “Review of Lewis Mumford: A Life by Donald Miller,”, in Technology and Culture, volume 31, number 4, page 914:
      It led willy-nilly to technological determinism, a philosophy that Mumford, the axiologist, generally repudiated. Even in the later pages of Technics and Civilization, he stresses the role of values in shaping technology.
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