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It was largely due to the imagination of Ryle that Oxford, after 1945, became one of the leading centres in the world for philosophical research. Ryle's own style as a thinker, writer, and teacher were unique – capable of being parodied but impossible to imitate: ‘Le style, c'est Ryle’, J. L. Austin accurately noted.
Jul 5, 2024 · The notion of the absolute privacy of mental events was first criticized, however, by Carnap and later by an Oxford analytical philosopher, Gilbert Ryle.
Jun 19, 2024 · Abstract. This paper considers in conceptual terms the extent to which pre-service teachers’ disengagement with philosophy of education might usefully be explained in terms of the mistaken charge of (1) ‘epistemic trespassing’ frequently levelled against philosophers of education.
Jun 20, 2024 · Dennett’s supervisor at Oxford was Gilbert Ryle, the commanding presence of mid-20 th -century Oxford philosophy. Ryle had argued in The Concept of Mind (1949) that Descartes’s account of immaterial substance was a bad answer to a silly question.
4 days ago · 24 Gilbert Ryle, The Concept of Mind, Abingdon: Routledge, 2009 [1949], p 17, writes ‘Theorists have been so preoccupied with the task of investigating the nature, the source and the credentials of the theories that we adopt that they have for the most part ignored the question what it is for someone to know how to perform tasks’.
Jun 23, 2024 · Influenced by the ideas of the later Wittgenstein, which were only then becoming known outside Cambridge, a group of philosophers at Oxford, led by Gilbert Ryle and J.L. Austin (1911–60), were arguing persuasively that most philosophical problems were simply conceptual confusions resulting from philosophers’ insufficient ...
2 days ago · Some of the philosophers whose works we might study include J.L. Austin, Rudolf Carnap, Donald Davidson, Gottlob Frege, H.P. Grice, G.E. Moore, Hilary Putnam, W.v.O. Quine, Gilbert Ryle, Moritz Schlick, Peter Strawson, Alfred Tarski, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and others.
