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Austro-Hungarian logical positivist philosopher of science and philosopher of psychology, born in Reicheburg, Professor at the University of Minnesota. Feigl was a major proponent of logical positivism in the Vienna Circle, which he helped to found, and after emigration in the United States. He argued on empirical grounds for the identity of mental states and physical states, but denied the reduction of mental concepts to physical concepts. His major works include “The ‘Mental’ and the ‘Physical’” in H. Feigl et al. (eds.), Minnesota Studies in the Philosophy of Science , vol. 2 (1958) and Inquiries and Provocations: Selected Writings 1929–1974 (1981). ... log in or subscribe to read full text