Herbert Feigl
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Feigl, Herbert (14 December 1902 - 1 June 1988)
Feigl, who was born in Reichenberg, Austria, was the son of a weaver and a devotee of the arts. Although Jewish, his father was an outspoken atheist. Feigl was one of the early members of the "Vienna Circle" and introduced the theories of logical positivism in the United States. With Wilfrid Sellers, he edited Philosophical Studies.
Biographical
A detailed biography by C. Wade Savage of the University of Minnesota includes not only the story of his life and his conversion from logical positivism to logical empiricism (realist positivism) but also tells of his later years, his loss of hearing, his failing eyesight, and his death from cancer [[1]].
When he signed Humanist Manifesto II, Feigl was professor emeritus of philosophy at the University of Minnesota. In 1966 Feigl addressed the Fourth International Humanist and Ethical Union World Congress held in Paris. In 1980, he signed the Secular Humanist Declaration. Feigl wrote Inquiries and Provocations (1981).
Feigl's Writings
Feigl, Herbert (1927). Zufall und Gesetz. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Vienna.
___________ (1929). Theorie und Erfahrung in der Physik. Karlsruhe: G. Braun. English translation of chapter 3 in Feigl 1980, pp. 116-144.
___________ (1930). "Wahrscheinslichkeit und Erfahrung". Erkenntnis 1: 249-259. Translated as "Probability and Experience" in Feigl 1980, pp. 107-115.
___________ (1958). "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'". In Feigl and Scriven, pp. 370-497.
___________ (1967). "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'." The Essay and a Postscript. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
___________ (1969). "The Wiener Kreis in America". In D. Fleming and B. Bailyn (eds.). The Intellectual Migration 1930-1960. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, pp. 630-673. Reprinted in Feigl 1980, pp. 57-94.
___________ (1974a). "Empiricism at Bay?" In Robert S. Cohen and Marx W. Wartofsky (eds.). Methodological and Historical Essays in the Natural and Social Sciences. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume XIV. Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel, pp. 1-20. Reprinted in Feigl 1980, pp. 269-285.
___________ (1974b). "No Pot of Message". In P. Bertocci (eds.). Mid-Twentieth Century Philosophy: Personal Statements. New York: Humanities Press, pp. 120-139. Reprinted in Feigl (1980), pp. 1-20.
___________ (1980). Inquiries and Provocations: Selected Writings 1929-1974. Edited by Robert S. Cohen, Vienna Circle Collection, Volume XIV, Dordrecht and Boston: Reidel.
___________ and Wilfrid Sellars (eds.) (1949). Readings in Philosophical Analysis. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
___________ and May Brodbeck, (eds.) (1953). Readings in the Philosophy of Science. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
___________ and Michael Scriven (eds.) (1956). The Foundations of Science and the Concepts of Psychology and Psychoanalysis. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 1. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
___________ , Michael Scriven, and Grover Maxwell (eds.) (1958). Concepts, Theories, and the Mind-body Problem. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 2. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
___________ and Grover Maxwell (eds.) (1961). Current Issues in the Philosophy of Science. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston.
___________ and Grover Maxwell (eds.) (1962). Scientific Explanation, Space, and Time. Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science, Volume 3. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
___________ Wilfrid Sellars, and Keith Lehrer (eds.) (1972). New Readings in Philosophical Analysis. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts.
