Herbert Feigl
Herbert Feigl ( born December 14, 1902 in Reichenberg, Bohemia, † June 1, 1988 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) was an Austrian-American philosopher.
Career
Herbert Feigl studied physics, mathematics and philosophy in Munich. In 1922 he began his studies in Vienna; during this time he has joined the Vienna Circle. In 1927 he received his doctorate in philosophy. His first monograph, theory and experience in physics, appears in 1929. The following year he emigrated to the United States, where he gets a Rockefeller Fellowship Fellowship at Harvard University. 1933 Feigl assistant professor at the University of Iowa, 1937 Associate Professor ibid., 1940 for the second time owner of a Rockefeller Fellowship at Harvard University and Columbia University. In 1953, he builds on the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, 1971, he resigned as its director, but worked until his death in 1988, continued as an author.