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(1974) Methodological and historical essays in the natural and social sciences, Dordrecht, Springer.
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".
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-2128-9_1
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Feigl, H. (1974)., Empiricism at bay?, in R. S. Cohen & M. W. Wartofsky (eds.), Methodological and historical essays in the natural and social sciences, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 1-20.
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