Gilbert Ryle Philosopher

Gilbert Ryle (19 August 1900 – 6 October 1976) was a British philosopher. He was a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers who shared Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine." Some of his ideas in the philosophy of mind have been referred to as "behaviourist." Ryle's best known book is The Concept of Mind (1949), in which he writes that the "general trend of this book will undoubtedly, and harmlessly, be stigmatised as 'behaviourist'." Ryle, having engaged in detailed study of the key works of Bernard Bolzano, Franz Brentano, Alexius Meinong, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger, himself suggested instead that the book "could be described as a sustained essay in phenomenology, if you are at home with that label."

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Birth date	August 19, 1900
Birth place	Brighton
Date of death	October 06, 1976
Place of death	Oxford
Main interest	Behaviorism Philosophy of language Philosophy of mind Cognition Ordinary language philosophy

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influenced	A. J. Ayer Daniel Dennett Clifford Geertz John Searle J. L. Austin R. M. Hare Ullin Place Wilfrid Sellars Gerald Cohen Richard Webster (British author)
influenced by	Arthur Schopenhauer Ludwig Wittgenstein René Descartes
notable idea	Ghost in the machine Ordinary language philosophy Ryle's regress
philosophical school	Analytic philosophy
region	Western philosophy