
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1974
Pages: 1-20
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027703781
Full citation:
, "Empiricism at bay?", in: Methodological and historical essays in the natural and social sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1974


Empiricism at bay?
pp. 1-20
in: Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), Methodological and historical essays in the natural and social sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1974Abstract
At the risk of being regarded a" square" and "reactionary" I wish to defend, explicate, reformulate and" salvage" whatever seems valuable to me in the empiricist tradition in the philosophy of science. I am fully aware of the almost hostile vogue of "beating-up" on the empiricists, a fashion that is still in full swing. My only consolation is the remark of a well-known British philosopher. When he visited us at the University of Minnesota a few years ago, he said to me: "Don't worry Feigl, if you don't catch the bus of philosophy the first time, just wait a while, it"ll come "round again!". Since I was lucky enough to catch the bus of philosophical fashion some forty years ago, I hope to be lucky once again during the rest of my "natural life".
Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Berlin
Year: 1974
Pages: 1-20
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN (Hardback): 9789027703781
Full citation:
, "Empiricism at bay?", in: Methodological and historical essays in the natural and social sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1974