Titlebook: Ryle on Mind and Language; David Dolby Book 2014 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014 Ryle.Philosophy of Mi

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Introduction,ilosophy; the critique of Cartesian dualism set out in his 1949 book . features in almost all introductions to the philosophy of mind; and many of his coinages and distinctions have entered the philosophical lexicon. Nevertheless, discussions engaging with Ryle’s own writings are rare. This is a gre

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Nothing Categorical on Categories,hy. By the heyday of linguistic philosophy it had been reduced to a tool of a purely negative project, namely the critique of certain philosophical doctrines or questions as based on linguistic mistakes. Later even its negative potential was questioned and it became common opinion that no coherent d

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,Ryle’s Conceptions of Emotional Behaviour,angs, glows, flutters, and throbs, on the one hand. And he considers character traits like vanity, patriotism, and indolence as well as commitments, like interest in symbolic logic, on the other hand. But what of things like glowing with pride that one’s daughter has won a prize, feeling angry with

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A Peg for Some Thoughts,oadcast on BBC radio in the winter of 1970–1 and later published, with extensive revisions, as . (Magee 1971). At the end of the discussion Magee asked Ryle if his work on . , which he had begun in earnest the year after the publication of . . and was still in train 20 years later, would reveal its

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Mental Occurrences and Terminus Verbs,he linguistic turn in the subject, due largely to Wittgenstein, metaphysical theorising gave way to conceptual or ‘grammatical’ investigations, but we are now beginning to see theorising of an ostensibly more scientific character in turn taking over from the more purely analytical concerns which fol