Empiricism at bay?
pp. 101-120
in: Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), A portrait of twenty-five years, Berlin, Springer, 1985Abstract
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'.