The 'Mental' and the 'Physical' - The Essay and the Postscript

Herbert Feigl's "The 'Mental' and the 'Physical'", originally published in *Minnesota Studies In The Philosophy Of Science*, was for many years considered a genre-defining work of analytic philosophy: that is to say, its attempt to bring the phenomenalist scruples of Feigl's early days up to materialist "spec" set the tone of discussions of the "mind-brain identity thesis" to an extent greater than attested to by the rate of adoption concerning Feigl's particulars.