Herbert Feigl (December 14, 1902 - June 1, 1988) was an Austrian philosopher and a member of the Vienna Circle. Events January-April January 28 - The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Republic of Austria (German: Republik Österreich) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. ... The Vienna Circle was a group of philosophers and scientists organized in Vienna under Moritz Schlick. ...

The son of a weaver, Feigl was born in Liberec (Reichenberg), Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic) and matriculated at the University of Vienna in 1922. He studied physics and philosophy under Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, and received his doctorate in 1927 for the essay "Chance and Law: An Epistemological Analysis of the Roles of Probability and Induction in the Natural Sciences." He published his first book, Theory and Experience in Physics, in 1929. He became an active member in the Vienna Circle during this time: he was one of the few Circle members (along with Schlick and Friedrich Waismann) to have extensive conversations with Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper. Liberec - the town hall Liberec (German: Reichenberg) is a city of the Czech Republic, in the Liberec Region of Bohemia. ... Bohemia is also a place in the State of United States of America: see Bohemia, New York. ... Austria-Hungary, also known as the Dual monarchy (or: the k. ... National motto: Truth prevails (Czech: Pravda vítězí) Official language Czech Capital Praha (Prague) President Václav Klaus Prime Minister Jiří Paroubek Area  - Total  - % water Ranked 114th 78,866 km² 2% Population  - Total (2003)  - Density Ranked 76th 10. ... The University of Vienna (German: Universität Wien) was founded in 1365 by Rudolph IV and hence named Alma mater Rudolphina. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Physics (from the Greek, φυσικός (phusikos), natural, and φύσις (phusis), nature) is the science of nature in the broadest sense. ... Philosophy (from a combination of the Greek words philos meaning love and sophia meaning wisdom), as a practice, aims at some kind of understanding, knowledge or wisdom about fundamental matters such as reality, knowledge, meaning, value, being and truth. ... Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882–June 22, 1936) was the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. ... Events January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London January 9 - Military rebellion crushed in Lisbon January 14 - Paul Doumer elected president of France January 19 - Britain sends troops to China February 12 - First British troops lad on Shanghai February 14 - Earthquake in Yugoslavia - 700 dead February... 1929 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), pictured here in 1930, made influential contributions to Logic and the philosophy of language, critically examining the task of conventional philosophy and its relation to the nature of language. ... Karl Popper Sir Karl Raimund Popper (July 28, 1902 - September 17, 1994), was an Austrian-born, British philosopher of science. ...

In 1930, on an International Rockefeller Scholarship at Harvard University, Feigl he met the physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, and the psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens, all of whom he saw as kindred spirits. In a 1931 paper with Albert Blumberg, "Logical Positivism: A New European Movement," he argued for logical positivism to be re-named "logical empiricism" based upon certain realist differences between contemporary philosophy of science and the older positivist movement. 1930 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Rockefeller Rockefeller family Rockefeller Group International, Inc. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA and a member of the Ivy League. ... Percy Williams Bridgman (April 21, 1882–August 20, 1961) was an American physicist who won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the physics of high pressures. ... W. V. Quine Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 - December 25, 2000) was one of the most influential American philosophers and logicians of the 20th century. ... Stanley Smith Stevens (1906-1973) was an American psychologist best known as the founder of Harvards Psycho-Acoustical Laboratory. ... 1931 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Logical positivism (later referred to as logical empiricism) holds that philosophy should aspire to the same sort of rigor as science. ... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... The philosophy of science is the branch of philosophy which studies the philosophical foundations, presumptions and implications of science both of the natural sciences like physics and biology and the social sciences such as psychology and economics. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

In 1931, Feigl married Maria Kaspar and emigrated with her to the United States, settling in Iowa to take up a position in the philosophy department at the University of Iowa. In 1940, he accepted a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Minnesota, where he remained for 31 years. His close professional and personal relationship with Wilfrid Sellars produced many different collaborative projects, including the textbook Readings in Philosophical Analysis and the journal Philosophical Studies, which he and Sellars founded in 1949. In 1953, with a grant from the Hill Foundation, he established the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. He was appointed Regents Professor of the University of Minnesota in 1967. The University of Iowa is a university in Iowa City, Iowa. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Affectionately referred to by locals as the U or U of M, The University of Minnesota is a large university with several campuses spread throughout the U.S. state of Minnesota. ... Wilfrid Stalker Sellars (May 20, 1912 - July 2, 1989) was an American philosopher, at the University of Pittsburgh for most of his career. ... 1949 is a common year starting on Saturday. ... 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ...

Feigl retired in 1971 and died of cancer on June 1, 1988 in Minneapolis. 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... When normal cells are damaged or old they undergo apoptosis; cancer cells, however, avoid apoptosis. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the city in Minnesota. ...