Still, Gilbert Ryle, one of the book’s central figures, believed that the philosophy he was doing marked some sort of break from a tradition that was full of woolly speculation about reality and ...

But as it was, his Oxford chair was filled by Gilbert Ryle, a man in whose image British philosophy was soon remade. And a man who did more than his fair share to entrench the gulf. Before the Second ...

There was a course you could take called Philosophy of Mind, which involved a certain amount of psychology – and I was one of those who read Gilbert Ryle’s Concept of Mind (1949), a book that damned ...

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The Oxford philosopher Gilbert Ryle claimed he had once talked a student out of suicide by pointing out to him that the logic of ‘nothing matters’ is very different from that of, for example, ‘nothing ...

Nikhil Krishnan’s A Terribly Serious Adventure shows how Oxford’s “ordinary language” movement, pioneered by JL Austin and Gilbert Ryle, looked to words for answers. By Thomas Nagel The philosopher ...

Philosophers associated with the school include some of the most distinguished British thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Gilbert Ryle and JL Austin.