Philosopher
Gilbert Ryle
Overview
Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine". Some of Ryle's ideas in philosophy of mind have been called logical behaviourist. In his best-known book, The Concept of Mind (1949), he writes that the "general trend of this book will undoubtedly, and harmlessly, be stigmatised as 'behaviourist'." Having studied the philosophers Bernard Bolzano, Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, Ryle suggested that the book instead "could be described as a sustained essay in phenomenology, if you are at home with that label."
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Philosophers who discussed Gilbert Ryle
- Nuel Belnap
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Antony Flew
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- A. J. Ayer
- David Malet Armstrong
- Ernest Gellner
- Philosophical Investigations
- P. F. Strawson
- Theodor W. Adorno
- Arthur Prior
- H. L. A. Hart
- Wilfrid Sellars
- David Lewis (philosopher)
- Alexius Meinong
- G. A. Cohen
- Bertrand Russell
- Bernard Williams
- G. E. M. Anscombe
- Paul Feyerabend
- Language of thought hypothesis
- Daniel Dennett
- Kendall Walton
- Ullin Place
Ideas Gilbert Ryle discusses
- Cognition
- The Concept of Mind
- Anglicanism
- Magdalen College, Oxford
- Antony Flew
- Philosophy
- Western philosophy
- Herbert A. Simon
- Idealism
- Analytic philosophy
- Mind–body dualism
- Geography
- Functionalism (philosophy of mind)
- A. J. Ayer
- Peter Winch
- Order of the British Empire
- Noam Chomsky
- Ghost in the machine
- Psychology
- Declarative knowledge
- P. F. Strawson
- University of Cambridge
- Bernard Bolzano
- Michael Dummett
Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.