Title: Mind, Matter and Method : Essays in Philosophy and Science in Honor of Herbert Feigl
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 1966
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0816603790
ISBN 13: 9780816603794
Condition: Good

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Table of Contents Herbert Feigl: A Biographical Sketch (Paul K. Feyerabend) PART I - PHILOSOPHY OF MIND AND RELATED ISSUES Feigl on the Mind-Body Problem (Bruce Aune) Mental and Physical: Identity Versus Sameness (May Brodbeck) The Psychoanalyst and his Relationship to the Philosophy of Science (Rudolf Ekstein) A Task for Philosophers (Wolfgang Kohler) Why Isn't the Mind-Body Problem Ancient? (Wallace I. Matson) The Compleat Autocerebroscopist: A Thought Experiment on Professor Feigl's Mind-Body Identity Thesis (Paul E. Meehl) Free Will (Carroll C. Pratt) The Limitations of the Identity Theory (Michael Scriven) The Refutation of Phenomenalism: Prolegomena to a Defence of Scientific Rationalism (Wilfrid Sellars) Quantifying the Sensory Experience (S. S. Stevens) PART II INDUCTION, CONFIRMATION, AND PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD Contextual Analysis (Charles E. Bures) Probability and Content Measure (Rudolf Carnap) Again the Paradigm (Antony Flew) The Falsifiability of a Component of a Theoretical System (Adolf Grunbaum) The Problem of Induction (Victor Kraft) Criteria of Meaning and Demarcation (Grover Maxwell) On Knowledge of Values (Stephen C. Pepper) A Theorem on Truth-Content (Karl R. Popper) Verifiability and Logic (Wesley C. Salmon) Philosophy and Scientific Plausibility (J. J. C. Smart) A Case for Transempirical and Supernaturalistic Knowledge Claims (Henry B. Veatch) PART III - PHILOSOPHY OF THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES On the Possibility of a Perpetuum Mobile of the Second Kind (Paul K. Feyerabend) Equivalence: The Paradox of Theoretical Analysis (Norwood Russell Hanson) Classical Mechanics as a Limiting Form of Quantum Mechanics (E. L. Hill) Relativity and the Atom (Henryk Mehlberg) Language, Spatial Concepts, and Physics (Wolfgang Yourgrau)

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