Books by Gilbert Ryle

This work challenges what Glbert Ryle calls philosophy's "official theory", the Cartesian "myth" of the separation of mind and matter.

This epoch-making book cuts through confused thinking and forces us to re-examine many cherished ideas about knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect. The result is a classic example of philosophy.

Common sense tells me I can control my life to some extent; should I then, faced with a logical argument for fatalism, reject common sense? There seems to be no place in a physical theory of the universe for the sensory experiences of colours, taste and smells, yet I know I have these experiences. In this book, Gilbert Ryle explores the conflicts that arise in everyday life and shows that the either/or which such dilemmas seem to suggest is a false dilemma: one side of the dilemma does not deny what we know to be true on the other side. This classic book has been revived in a new series livery for twenty-first-century readers, featuring a specially commissioned preface written by Barry Stroud.

Plato's Progress deals with scholarly questions of datings and developments, showing and demanding familiarity with a wide literature.

Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and yet misunderstood philosophers of the Twentieth Century. This book showcases Ryle's deep interest in the notion of thinking and contains many of his major pieces, including his classic essays "Knowing How and Knowing That", "Philosophical Arguments", and "Systematically Misleading Expressions".

Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and controversial philosophers of the Twentieth century. This book contains 20 critical essays on the history of philosophy, including Plato, Locke and Hume as well as chapters on Russell and Wittgenstein. It includes essays on phenomenology, including Ryle's review of Martin Heidegger's "Being and Time".

* Contains previously unpublished material by Gilbert Ryle* Includes tributes from John Mabbott, a close friend of Gilbert Ryle, on Ryle the man and from David Gallop, an ex--student, on Ryle the Philosopher. .