2007-07-14Z2011-03-11T08:56:53Zhttp://cogprints.org/id/eprint/5600This item is in the repository with the URL: http://cogprints.org/id/eprint/56002007-07-14ZThe Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism:
Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical ParallelismIn the 19th century, "Psychophysical Parallelism" was the most popular solution of the mind-body problem among physiologists, psychologists and philosophers. (This is not to be mixed up with Leibnizian and other cases of "Cartesian" parallelism.) The fate of this non-Cartesian view, as founded by Gustav Theodor Fechner, is reviewed. It is shown that Feigl's "identity theory" eventually goes back to Alois Riehl who promoted a hybrid version of psychophysical parallelism and Kantian mind-body theory which was taken up by Feigl's teacher Moritz Schlick..Michael Heidelberger