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- Born
- 1900
- Died
- 1976
- Works
- 33
Top works
- Per una lettura di Platone
- Ensaios
- The Holy Bible
- Lo spirito come comportamento
- A puzzling element in the notion of thinking
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Quotes
- “A myth is, of course, not a fairy story. It is the presentation of facts belonging to one category in the idioms appropriate to another. To explode a myth is accordingly not to deny the facts but to re-allocate them.”
- “The mind is its own place and in his inner life each of us lives the life of a ghostly Robinson Crusoe. People can see, hear and jolt one another’s bodies, but they are irremediably blind and deaf to the workings of one another’s minds and inoperative upon them.”
- “Myths often do a lot of theoretical good, while they are still new.”
- “It is of first-rate importance to notice from the start that stupidity is not the same thing, or the same sort of thing, as ignorance. There is no incompatibility between being well-informed and being silly, and a person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.”
- “To see is one thing; to picture or visualise is another. A person can see things, only when his eyes are open, and when his surroundings are illuminated; but he can have pictures in his mind’s eye, when his eyes are shut and when the world is dark.”
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Key facts
- Born
- 19 August 1900, Brighton , England
- Died
- 6 October 1976 (aged 76), Whitby , England
- Alma mater
- The Queen's College, Oxford
- Region
- Western philosophy
- School
- Analytic philosophy logical behaviourism
- Doctoral students
- Daniel Dennett Colin Radford
- Notable students
- Theodor W. Adorno A. J. Ayer G. A. Cohen Antony Flew Þorsteinn Gylfason Bernard Williams
- Main interests
- Philosophy of language ordinary language philosophy philosophy of mind behaviourism meaning cognition
- Notable ideas
- Category mistake Ryle's regress ordinary language philosophy ghost in the machine thick description vs thin description knowing-how vs. knowing-that topic neutrality
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- Rex Whistler - Gilbert Ryle, Fellow.jpg
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- date of death
- 1976-10-06
- date of birth
- 1900-08-19
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Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher, principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "ghost in the machine". 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'." 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."
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