title: The Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism: Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical Parallelism
creator: Heidelberger, Michael
subject: Psychophysics
subject: Philosophy of Mind
subject: Philosophy of Science
subject: Epistemology
description: In 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..
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
contributor: Parrini, Paolo
contributor: Salmon, Wesley C.
contributor: Salmon, Merrillee H.
date: 2003
type: Book Chapter
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/5600/1/Mind-Body_Theory_in_the_Origin_of_Logical_Empiricism.pdf
identifier:   Heidelberger, Michael  (2003) The Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism: Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical Parallelism.  [Book Chapter]     
relation: http://cogprints.org/5600/