Inquiries and Provocations Selected Writings 1929–1974

The title is his own. Herbert Feigl, the provocateur and the soul (if we may put it so) of modesty, wrote to me some years ago, "I'm more of a catalyst than producer of new and original ideas all my life . . . ", but then he com­ pleted the self-appraisal: " . . . with just a few...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feigl, Herbert
Other Authors: Cohen, Robert S. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1981, 1981
Edition:1st ed. 1981
Series:Vienna Circle Collection
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1. No Pot of Message [1974a]
  • 2. The Origin and Spirit of Logical Positivism [1969a]
  • 3. The Power of Positivistic Thinking [1963b]
  • 4. The Wiener Kreis in America [1969d]
  • 5. Scientific Method without Metaphysical Presuppositions [1954]
  • 6. Probability and Experience [1930]
  • 7. Meaning and Validity of Physical Theories [1929]
  • 8. Confirmability and Confirmation [1951a]
  • 9. The Logical Character of the Principle of Induction [1934a]
  • 10. What Hume Might Have Said to Kant [1964a]
  • 11. Operationism and Scientific Method (and Rejoinder) [1945a] and [1945b]
  • 12. Existential Hypotheses [1950b]
  • 13. Logical Reconstruction, Realism and Pure Semiotic [1950c]
  • 14. De Principiis Non Disputandum… ? [1950a]
  • 15. Empiricism at Bay? [1971e]
  • 16. The Mind-Body Problem in the Development of Logical Empiricism [1950d]
  • 17. Physicalism, Unity of Science and the Foundations of Psychology [1963d]
  • 18. Mind-Body, Not a Pseudoproblem [1960]
  • 19. Some Crucial Issues of Mind-Body Monism [1971a]
  • 20. Naturalism and Humanism [1949a]
  • 21. Validation and Vindication: An Analysis of the Nature and the Limits of Ethical Arguments [1952]
  • 22. Everybody Talks about the Temperature [1964c]
  • 23. Is Science Relevant to Theology? [1966a]
  • 24. Ethics, Religion, and Scientific Humanism [1969e]
  • Bibliography of Works Cited
  • Bibliography of Herbert Feigl
  • Name Index