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Albert Blumberg and Feigl suggested in their 1931 paper "Logical Positivism. A New European Movement" that logical positivism was renamed "logical empiricism" because of certain differences between the new and the older positivist
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Zufall und Gesetz: Versuch einer naturerkenntnistheoretischen Klarung des Wahrscheinlichkeits- und Induktionsproblems (Chance and Law: An Epistemological Analysis of the Roles of Probability and Induction in the Natural
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Smart (1959) credits Feigl with coining the term 'nomological danglers' for conscious properties, as they are conceived on the emergentist view.
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Zufall und Gesetz: Versuch einer naturerkenntnistheoretischen Klarung des Wahrscheinlichkeits- und Induktionsproblems
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Chance and Law: An Epistemological Analysis of the Roles of Probability and Induction in the Natural Sciences
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The Vienna Circle in the Nordic Countries : networks and transformations of logical empiricism
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In 1930, Feigl married Maria Kaspar and emigrated with her to the United States, settling in
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The son of a trained weaver who became a textile designer, Feigl was born in
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produced many different collaborative projects, including the textbook
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and he was, in the paradigmatic sense, a philosopher of science.
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Inquiries and provocations : selected writings, 1929-1974
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to take up a position in the philosophy department at the
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Savage, C. Wade (1989). "Obituary for Herbert Feigl".
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to be renamed "logical empiricism" based upon certain
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Reichenberg (Liberec)
Bohemia
Austria-Hungary
Minneapolis, Minnesota
20th-century philosophy
Western philosophy
School
Analytic philosophy
Vienna Circle
Thesis
Hugh Mellor
Philosophy of science
Nomological danglers
/ˈfɡəl/
[ˈfaɪgl̩]
Austrian
American
philosopher
Vienna Circle
nomological danglers
Reichenberg (Liberec)
Bohemia
University of Vienna
physics
philosophy
Moritz Schlick
Hans Hahn
Hans Thirring
Karl Bühler

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