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Gilbert Ryle
British philosopher / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher.[7] Today, he is mostly known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, which he called "ghost in the machine." He was a f British ordinary language philosophers who shared Ludwig Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems.[8]
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Born | 19 August 1900 Brighton, England |
Died | 6 October 1976 (aged 76) Whitby, England |
Alma mater | The Queen's College, Oxford |
Era | 20th-century philosophy |
Region | Western philosophy |
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Some of Ryle's ideas in philosophy of mind have been called 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'."[9] 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."[10]