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In philosophy one of the chief advocates of this view is Gilbert Ryle*, a British philosopher whose book, The Concept of Mind, had a dramatic impact on Western thought. Ryle’s behaviorism was a different sort from that of psychology.
Dec 18, 2007 · Although Gilbert Ryle published on a wide range of topics in philosophy (notably in the history of philosophy and in philosophy of language), including a series of lectures centred on philosophical dilemmas, a series of articles on the concept of thinking, and a book on Plato, The Concept of Mind remains his best known and most ...
Oct 2, 2024 · Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher and a leading figure in the “Oxford philosophy,” or “ordinary language,” movement. Ryle gained first-class honours at Queen’s College, Oxford, and became a lecturer at Christ Church College in 1924.
Though best known and often identified with his work on concepts of mind, Gilbert Ryle (b. 1900–d. 1976) was no monoglot. He was a broad thinker, with broad influences, invested in various philosophical issues—perhaps chief among them, the status and methods of philosophy itself.
One of the most influential books of the twentieth-century in the philosophy of mind is Gilbert Ryle's "The Concept of Mind" (1949, London: Hutcheson (all references are to this edition). Guy Douglas and Stewart Saunders introduce the text here.
In The Concept of Mind (1949), Ryle argued that the traditional conception of the human mind—that it is an invisible ghostlike entity occupying a physical body—is based on what he called a “category mistake.” The mistake is to interpret the term mind as though it were…
Note also Stanley’s (2011a, 207-208) description of Ryle’s position, introducing the notion of cogntive states: “According to Gilbert Ryle…knowing how to F is not a species of propositional knowledge. Instead, knowing how is a distinctive kind of non-propositional mental state.
Explore Ryle's critique of Cartesian dualism and discover how he redefines the self as a collection of observable behaviors rather than a hidden internal essence.
Mar 22, 2012 · The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle is a rebuttal of Descartes ‘res cogitans’, which he calls the ‘The Ghost in the Machine’. Descartes believed we have such a ‘thinking thing’ in our head. Gilbert says that’s impossible; it has never been found and never will, because it is a ghost.
His views in philosophy of mind led to his being described as a ‘logical behaviourist’ and his major work in that area, The Concept of Mind (1949), both by reason of its style and content, has become one of the modern classics of philosophy.
