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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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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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gilbert
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Brighton
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- philosopher
- Educated at
- The Queen's College
- Employer
- Magdalen College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral student
- Daniel Dennett
- Field of work
- ordinary language philosophy
- Image
- 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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- Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
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- Gilbert Ryle
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Encyclopedic overview
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."
Biography
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