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  • Provocations: Selected Writings 1929 – 1974 edited by Herbert Feigl and

    Trafficking Materials and Gendered Experimental Practices: Radium Research in Early 20th Century Vienna 2007

  • (The best examples of philosophers who operate with the object-conception of the physical are Meehl and Sellars 1956 and Feigl 1965; more recent defense is to be found in Jackson 1998.)

    Physicalism Stoljar, Daniel 2009

  • In them, under the influence of both Popper and Wittgenstein, Feyerabend initiated a vigourous critique of the then-orthodox philosophies of science provided by descendants of the Vienna Circle, “Logical Empiricist” thinkers such as Rudolph Carnap, Feigl, Nagel, and Hempel.

    Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

  • It was ¦ quite a shock to hear Feigl expound fundamental difficulties and to hear him explain in perfectly simple language without any recourse to formalism why the problem of application [of the probability-calculus] was still without a solution.

    Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

  • Feigl had been a member of the Vienna Circle until his emigration to the USA in

    Paul Feyerabend Preston, John 2009

  • “The Analytic and the Synthetic,” in Feigl and Maxwell (1962), pp. 350-97.

    Philosophy of Economics Hausman, Daniel M. 2008

  • Gödel's university years also marked the beginning of his attendance at meetings of the Vienna Circle, a group around Moritz Schlick that quickly became known as "logical positivists," a term coined by Feigl and Blumberg in their 1931 "Logical positivism: A new movement in European philosophy" (Feigl and Blumberg 1931).

    Kurt Gödel Kennedy, Juliette 2007

  • In this he was also encouraged and influenced by Feigl's ˜ "The Mental" and the "Physical"™ (Feigl 1958, 1967).

    The Identity Theory of Mind Smart, J. J. C. 2007

  • The laws linking mind and brain are what Feigl (1958) calls nomological danglers, that is, brute facts added onto the body of integrated physical law.

    Dualism Robinson, Howard 2007

  • So while in the heyday of the Vienna Circle itself the issue had not yet come into clear focus, by mid-century one could distinguish amongst its surviving members both realists (Feigl) and anti-realists (Frank) as well as ontological deflationists (Carnap).

    Vienna Circle Uebel, Thomas 2006

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