the boy of a weaver, Feigl was innate inside Liberec (Reichenberg), Bohemia (then Austria-Hungary, now Czech Republic) and matriculated at a University of Vienna in 1922. He exposed physics and philosophy under Moritz Schlick, the founder of the Vienna Circle, & received his doctor's degree within 1927 for the essay "Chance and Law: An Epistemological Analysis of the Roles of Probability and Induction in the Natural Sciences." He published his 1st book, Theory & Own experience within Natural philosophy, around 1929. He became an active member in a Vienna Circle when you took this instance: he was one of the couple Circle members (along sustaining Schlick & Friedrich Waismann) to have extensive conversations by using Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper.

Within 1930, on an International Rockefeller Scholarship at Harvard University, Feigl he met the physicist Percy Williams Bridgman, the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, and a psychologist Stanley Smith Stevens, all of whom he saw when kindred spirits. Around the 1931 paper with Albert Blumberg, "Logical Positivism: A New European Movement," he argued for logical positivism to become re-known as "logical empiricism" depending upon certain realist differences between contemporary philosophy of science and the older positivist movement.

Inside 1931, Feigl married Maria Kaspar & emigrated sustaining her to the United States, settling inside Iowa to require higher a position in the department of philosophy at the University of Iowa. Within 1940, he accepted a position when prof of philosophy at a University of Minnesota, where he remained for 31 years. His close agent & personal relation by owning Wilfrid Sellars produced many different collaborative projects, including a text Readings around Philosophical Analysis & a journal Philosophical Studies, which he & Sellars founded around 1949. Within 1953, with a grant from either a Hill Foundation, he established the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science. He was appointed Regents Prof of the University of Minnesota around 1967.

Feigl retired around 1971 and died of cancer on June 1, 1988 in Minneapolis.