Herbert Feigl

Herbert Feigl (; ; December 14, 1902 – June 1, 1988) was an Austrian-American philosopher and an early member of the Vienna Circle. He coined the term "nomological danglers".

Biography The son of a trained weaver who became a textile designer, Feigl was born in Reichenberg (Liberec), Bohemia, into a Jewish (though not religious) family.

In 1930, Feigl married Maria Kaspar and he was, in the paradigmatic sense, a philosopher of science.

Feigl wrote the introduction to the 1974 edition of Moritz Schlick's General Theory of Knowledge and wrote a memoir of Schlick for a published collection of Schlick's papers.

Feigl retired in 1971 and died of cancer on 1 June 1988 in Minneapolis. He was joined in death by his wife Maria the following year; they were survived by their son Eric O. Feigl, a professor of physiology at the University of Washington.

Selected publications Herbert Feigl, "The "Mental" and the "Physical": The Essay and a Postscript" (1967)