Mental and the Physical: The Essay and a Postscript (Hardcover)

by Herbert Feigl (Author)
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Professor Feigl’s essay “The ‘Mental’ and the ‘Physical’” has provoked a great deal of comment, criticism, and discussion since it first appeared as a part of the content of Volume II of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science about ten years ago. Now Professor Feigl takes account of the critical discussions and presents his own comments with respect to the most important points raised in the criticisms. The essay itself is presented here in full, along with the postscript. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has called the essay “a ‘super-colossal’ survey of the mind-body problem.” In its review of the earlier book containing the essay, Thought said: “This essay deserves careful reading by every philosopher concerned with genuine philosophical dialogue.”

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The Mental and the Physical was first published in 1967. 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.

Professor Feigl's essay "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'" has provoked a great deal of comment, criticism, and discussion since it first appeared as a part of the content of Volume II of the Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science about ten years ago. Now Professor Feigl takes account of the critical discussions and presents his own comments with respect to the most important points raised in the criticisms. The essay itself is presented here in full, along with the postscript. The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science has called the essay "a 'super-colossal' survey of the mind-body problem." In its review of the earlier book containing the essay, Thought said: "This essay deserves careful reading by every philosopher concerned with genuine philosophical dialogue."

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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Product Details Hardcover: 192 pages Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (September 25, 1967) ISBN-10: 0816604525 ISBN-13: 978-0816604524 Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,313,175 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 books cite this book:

• Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy) by John Heil on page 86, and page 228
• The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap, Volume 11 (Library of Living Philosophers) by Rudolf Carnap on page 152, and page 882
• Philosophy of Mind: A Contemporary Introduction (Routledge Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy, 3) by John Heil on page 86, and Back Matter
• The Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy (Penguin Dictionary) by Thomas Mautner on page 389
• Sensations: A Defense of Type Materialism (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Christopher S. Hill on page 20

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press (September 25, 1967)
• ISBN-10: 0816604525
• ISBN-13: 978-0816604524
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,313,175 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars What Once Were Protocols, Now Are Standards, April 3, 2004

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Herbert Feigl's "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'", originally published in *Minnesota Studies In The Philosophy Of Science*, was for many years considered a genre-defining work of analytic philosophy: that is to say, its attempt to bring the phenomenalist scruples of Feigl's early days up to materialist "spec" set the tone of discussions of the "mind-brain identity thesis" to an extent greater than attested to by the rate of adoption concerning Feigl's particulars. In some respects, this is a more finely wrought work than subsequent discussions of the topic: and those concerned with the benefits brought on by confessions of materialism would do well to consider it (especially Feigl's off-hand dismissal of Wilfrid Sellars) as a historical document neglecting to "index" certain commonplaces of the time.

The essay is certainly available to today's reader only in that format, and perhaps there is lesson enough about obsolescence contained in that: those concerned with revitalizing the mode of speech associated with its condition of production ought to think hard about the extent to which the intellectual manners of logical positivism are simply outdated, in that a great many of the Vienna Circle's goals for popular discourse on scientific matters have been achieved, others completely sublimated, and the remainder available almost exclusively "at a distance" (that is to say, in materials deriving from work done in proximity and at cross-purposes to them). But an honest assessment of postwar intellectual life in the US requires the granting of considerable respect and to popularity for their views.