The Concept of MindThis now-classic work challenges what Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory," the Cartesians "myth" of the separation of mind and matter. Ryle's linguistic analysis remaps the conceptual geography of mind, not so much solving traditional philosophical problems as dissolving them into the mere consequences of misguided language. His plain language and esstentially simple purpose place him in the traditioin of Locke, Berkeley, Mill, and Russell. |
Contents
REINTRODUCING THE CONCEPT OF MIND | vii |
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
DESCARTES MYTH | 11 |
2 The Absurdity of the Official Doctrine | 15 |
3 The Origin of the Category Mistake | 18 |
4 Historical Note | 23 |
KNOWING HOW AND KNOWING THAT | 25 |
3 Knowing How and Knowing That | 27 |
5 Achievements | 149 |
SELFKNOWLEDGE | 154 |
2 Consciousness | 156 |
3 Introspection | 163 |
4 SelfKnowledge without Privileged Access | 167 |
5 Disclosure by Unstudied Talk | 181 |
6 The Self | 186 |
7 The Systematic Elusiveness of I | 195 |
4 The Motives of the Intellectualist Legend | 32 |
5 In My head | 35 |
6 The positive account of Knowing How | 40 |
7 Intelligent Capacities versus Habits | 42 |
8 The exercise of intelligence | 45 |
9 Understanding and Misunderstanding | 51 |
10 Solipsism | 60 |
THE WILL | 62 |
3 The Distinction between Voluntary and Involuntary | 69 |
4 Freedom of the Will | 75 |
5 The Bogy of Mechanism | 76 |
EMOTION | 83 |
3 Inclinations versus Agitations | 93 |
4 Moods | 98 |
5 Agitations and Feelings | 104 |
6 Enjoying and Wanting | 107 |
7 The criteria of motives | 110 |
8 The Reasons and the Causes of Actions | 113 |
9 Conclusion | 114 |
DISPOSITIONS AND OCCURRENCES | 116 |
2 The Logic of Dispositional Statements | 117 |
3 Mental Capacities and Tendencies | 125 |
4 Mental Occurrences | 135 |
SENSATION AND OBSERVATION | 199 |
2 Sensations | 201 |
3 The Sense Datum Theory | 210 |
4 Sensation and Observation | 222 |
5 Phenomenalism | 234 |
6 Afterthoughts | 240 |
IMAGINATION | 245 |
2 Picturing and Seeing | 246 |
3 The Theory of Special Status Pictures | 248 |
4 Imagining | 256 |
5 Pretending | 258 |
6 Pretending Fancying and Imaging | 264 |
7 Memory | 272 |
THE INTELLECT | 280 |
3 The Construction Possession and Utilisation of Theories | 286 |
4 The Application and Misapplication of Epistemological Terms | 292 |
5 Saying and Teaching | 309 |
6 The Primacy of the Intellect | 314 |
7 Epistemology | 317 |
PSYCHOLOGY | 319 |
2 Behaviourism | 327 |
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