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Collected Papers. Volume I: Critical essays
by Ryle, Gilbert
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 0389041122
- ISBN 13
- 9780389041122
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Barnes & Noble, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Volume 1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 291 p., 24 cm. <br> "Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher, leading figure in the 'Oxford philosophy,' or 'ordinary language,' movement. Ryle's first book, The Concept of Mind (1949), is considered a modern classic. In it he challenges the traditional distinction between body and mind as delineated by Rene Descartes. Traditional Cartesian dualism, Ryle says, perpetrates a serious confusion when, looking beyond the human body (which exists in space and is subject to mechanical laws), it views the mind as an additional mysterious thing not subject to observation or to mechanical laws, rather than as the form or organizing principle of the body. What Ryle deems to be logically incoherent dogma of Cartesianism he labels as the doctrine of the ghost-in-the-machine. In Dilemmas (1954) Ryle analyzes propositions that appear irreconcilable, as when free will is set in opposition to the fatalistic view that future specific events are inevitable. He believed that the dilemmas posed by these seemingly contradictory propositions could be resolved only by viewing them as the result of conceptual confusion between the language of logic and the language of events. Among his other well-known books are Philosophical Arguments (1945), A Rational Animal (1962), Plato's Progress (1966), and The Thinking of Thoughts (1968)." <br> "Richard A. Macksey was a celebrated Johns Hopkins University professor whose affiliation with the university spanned six and a half decades. A legendary figure not only in his own fields of critical theory, comparative literature, and film studies but across all the humanities, Macksey possessed enormous intellectual capacity and a deeply insightful human nature. He was a man who read and wrote in six languages, was instrumental in launching a new era in structuralist thought in America, maintained a personal library containing a staggering collection of books and manuscripts, inspired generations of students to follow him to the thorniest heights of the human intellect, and penned or edited dozens of volumes of scholarly works, fiction, poetry, and translation." - Johns Hopkins University
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- Title
- Collected Papers. Volume I: Critical essays
- Author
- Ryle, Gilbert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0389041122
- ISBN 13
- 9780389041122
- Publisher
- Barnes & Noble
- Place of Publication
- Lanham, Maryland, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1971-01-01
- Size
- 0x0x0
- X weight
- 8 oz
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