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GILBERT RYLE (1900-1976)

• was a British philosopher who opposed the Cartesian dualism of mind versus matter. He coined the phrase “the ghost in the machine”.

• (^) Ryle denies the internal, non-physical self • “what truly matters is the behavior that a person manifests in his day- to-day life.”
• The self is not an entity one can locate and analyze but simply the convenient name that we use to refer to the behaviors that we make

CONTRIBUTIONS OF GILBERT

RYLE

• (^) He had an enormous influence on the development of 20th Century Analytic Philosophy, particularly in the areas of Philosophy of Mind and Philosophy of Language.
• (^) He was a 20 th^ Century British philosopher, mainly associated with the Ordinary Language Philosophy movement.

WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHY OF

GILBERT RYLE ABOUT SELF?

Arguing that the mind does not exist and therefore can’t be the seat of self, Ryle believed that self comes from behavior. We’re all just a bundle of behaviors caused by the physical workings of the body.