In this Book
- Mind, Matter, and Method: Essays in Philosophy and Science in Honor of Herbert Feigl
- Book
- 1966
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
Mind, Matter, and Method was first published in 1966. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.
This volume of twenty-six essays by as many contributors is published in honor of Herbert Feigl, professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota and director of the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science. Though the majority of the contributors are philosophers, there are also -- as benefits Mr. Feigl's varied intellectual interests -- representatives of psychology, psychoanalysis, and physics.
The first group of ten essays deals with the philosophy of mind, particularly with the mind-body problem, to which Mr. Feigl has devoted much attention. The eleven essays in the second part are concerned with problems of philosophical method, especially with induction and confirmation. The third part is comprised of five essays on the philosophy of the physical sciences. A biographical sketch of Mr. Feigl and a bibliography of his writings are also provided.
Table of Contents
- Frontispiece
- p. i
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. ii-iii
- Part I. Philosophy of Mind and Related Issues
- Feigl on the Mind-Body Problem
- pp. 17-39
- A Task for Philosophers
- pp. 70-91
- Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Ancient?
- pp. 92-102
- The Limitations of the Identity Theory
- pp. 191-197
- Quantifying the Sensory Experience
- pp. 215-234
- Part II. Induction, Confirmation, and Philosophical Method
- Contextual Analysis
- pp. 237-247
- Probability and Content Measure
- pp. 248-260
- Again the Paradigm
- pp. 261-272
- The Problem of Induction
- pp. 306-318
- Criteria of Meaning and of Demarcation
- pp. 319-327
- On Knowledge of Values
- pp. 328-342
- A Theorem on Truth-Content
- pp. 343-353
- Verifiability and Logic
- pp. 354-376
- Philosophy and Scientific Plausibility
- pp. 377-390
- Part III. Philosophy of the Physical Sciences
- Relativity and the Atom
- pp. 449-491
- Language, Spatial Concepts, and Physics
- pp. 492-506
- About the Contributors
- pp. 507-512
- The Writings of Herbert Feigl
- pp. 513-518
- Name Index
- pp. 519-524