creators_name: Heidelberger, Michael
editors_name: Parrini, Paolo
editors_name: Salmon, Wesley C.
editors_name: Salmon, Merrillee H.
type: bookchapter
datestamp: 2007-07-14
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:56:53
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism:
Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical Parallelism
ispublished: pub
subjects: psy-phys
subjects: phil-mind
subjects: phil-sci
subjects: phil-epist
full_text_status: public
keywords: mind-body problem, psychophysical parallelism, double-aspect theory, identity theory, logical empiricism, dualism, Cartesianism, psychophysics, neural correlate, Herbert Feigl
abstract: 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..
date: 2003
date_type: published
publication: Logical Empiricism: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
pagerange: 233-262
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Heidelberger, Michael  (2003) The Mind-Body Problem in the Origin of Logical Empiricism: Herbert Feigl and Psychophysical Parallelism.  [Book Chapter]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/5600/1/Mind-Body_Theory_in_the_Origin_of_Logical_Empiricism.pdf