Thinking by Ryle Gilbert (6 results)

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Broschiert. Condition: Gut. 144 Seiten. Einband leicht bestoßen. Besitzervermerk auf Einband. Ansonsten gut erhalten. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1200.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1978. xv, 136pp. Preface by G.J. Warnock. Uneven sunning to spine and ajoining areas of jacket. Previous owner's name sticker to front pastedown. Both book and unclipped dust jacket are otherwise in excellent condition. All contents are tight and clean. No inscriptions. "Anyone acquainted with Gilbert Ryle's Concept of Mind should find these essays worth reading. . They testify to Ryle's constant effort to sharpen his central philosophical position. Written during the last years of his life, these essays concentrate on what struck him as a most difficult and recalcitrant topic: thinking.".…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Annual Philosophical Lecture Henriette Hertz Trust British Academy. From the proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XLIV, pp. 129-144 unmarked and undiscoloured. Saddle-stitched with some tanning towards the wraps' edges.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. pp 15. Annual Philosophical Lecture Henriette Hertz Trust British Academy. From the proceedings of the British Academy, Volume XLIV, pp. 129-144 neat pencilled name and some faint marginal pencil lining probably buy a scholar. Thoughts about thinking. Saddle-stitched with some tanning towards the wraps' edges and faint rubbing and wear at spine o/w sound vg. …

London, Oxford University Press, 1958. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. Offprint from "The Proceedings of the British Academy", Vol. XLIV, 1958. A few nicks and light miscolouring to front wrapper. Ex libris pasted on to vero of title page. Internally fine and clean. Offprint of Ryle's influential work on the notion of thinking.Gilbert Ryle (1900-1976) was an immensely influential British philosopher, who represented the ordinary language philosophers so strongly influenced by Wittgenstein. He was also greatly influenced by Bertrand Russell and his theory of descriptions and the conception of analysis embodied in that. Influenced by the idea of misleading expressions, which can be sorted out only with the help of logic, Ryle establishes his view of philosophy as cartography. Just like the inhabitants of a space on earth can talk about that space to the cartographer, so the ordinary user of a language can talk to the philosopher. However, in both cases the practical knowledge of the ordinary user must be transformed into the universal terms of the expert in order for him to say anything meaningful.…