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Logical Analysis of the Psychophysical Problem

A Contribution of the New Positivism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Herbert Feigl*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, The State University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Extract

The mind-body problem is—despite appearances—still the inevitable basic issue of unending discussions in recent philosophy. Various types of epistemologies and metaphysics, European and American, have offered their widely divergent “solutions” of the dreaded Cartesian tangle. Is there any hope of reaching a universally acceptable view?

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1934

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Footnotes

1.

This paper has been presented, with minor changes, at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association in Chicago, September, 1933.

References

2. For a brief account of the main tendencies and results of Logical Positivism see the article by A. E. Blumberg and H. Feigl in Journal of Philosophy, 1931, p. 281.

3. I. A. Richards and C. K. Ogden, “The Meaning of Meaning,” 1923.

4. E. A. Singer, Mind as Behavior, 1924.

5. See my article, “The Logical Character of the Principle of Induction, this journal, Vol. I, p. 20.

6. R. Carnap, Der logische Aufbau der Welt, Berlin, 1928.

7. C. I. Lewis, Mind and the world-order, 1929, esp. chapters II, III, IV, V and VI.

8. E. G. Boring, The physical dimensions of consciousness, 1933.

9. R. Carnap, Die logische Syntax der Sprache, Vienna, 1934.