Herbert Feigl was born on 14 December 1902 in Reichenberg (modern-day Liberec, Czech Republic). He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Munich and, later, in Vienna, under Moritz Schlick, Hans Hahn, Hans Thirring and others. He received his doctorate from the University of Vienna in 1927. Feigl taught at the Wiener Volkshochschule until 1930 and then emigrated to the United States. From 1937 to 1940, he taught at the University of Iowa, his last position there being associate professor. In 1940, he was appointed to a chair at the University of Minnesota, where he founded the Minnesota Center for the Philosophy of Science in 1953, whose director he became. Feigl died on 1 June 1988 in Minneapolis (USA).
Herbert Feigl is a representative of logical empiricism. His works primarily explore the body-mind problem, which addresses the interplay between physical reality and consciousness. Feigl’s linguistic-analytic version of psychophysical parallelism continues to provide a framework for the debate even today.
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