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Gilbert Ryle 1900-1976 -   England

Encyclopedia Entries

1) Ryle, Gilbert. The Columbia Encyclopedia,
...Ryle, Gilbert, 1900-1976, British philosopher. A graduate of Oxford, he became a tutor at Christ Church, Oxford, and later was Waynflete professor of metaphysical...

2) logical positivism. The Columbia Encyclopedia,
...Among those philosophers whose work was influenced by the Vienna Circle are A. J. Ayer and Gilbert Ryle. The position of the original logical positivists was a blend...

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Ryle argued that the mind is not a non-physical substance residing in the body, “a ghost in a machine,” but a set of capacities and abilities belonging to the body. All references to the mental must be understood, at least theoretically, in terms of witnessable activities. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Copyright © 2003 Columbia University Press

Reading

Concept of Mind (1949)

Dilemmas (1954), 

Plato’s Progress (1966)

Collected Papers (2 vol., 1971)

Writing Available on the Internet

 Commentary

See G. Pitcher and O. Wood, ed., Ryle (1971).

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