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The Concept of Mind

Overview

1949 book by Gilbert Ryle critiquing Cartesian mind-body dualism; introduced the 'ghost in the machine' critique and the knowing-how / knowing-that distinction later foundational to Peter Naur's theory of programming

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed The Concept of Mind

• Gilbert Ryle
• David Malet Armstrong
• Wilfrid Sellars
• Daniel Dennett
• Kendall Walton

Related ideas

• Gilbert Ryle
• Epigram
• World Congress of Philosophy
• Mind–body problem
• Immanuel Kant
• John Searle
• Analytic philosophy
• Negation
• Jean-Paul Sartre
• Linguistic philosophy
• Mind–body dualism
• Ludwig Wittgenstein
• Being and Nothingness
• University of Chicago Press
• René Descartes
• Continental philosophy
• Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Category mistake
• Mind (journal)
• Herbert Marcuse
• Disposition
• Behaviorism
• Ordinary language philosophy
• Iris Murdoch

Place in the tradition

Part of Analytic philosophy.

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