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Gilbert Ryle: Philosophy of Self by Iris Pacheco is a document available to read on EtoBox.

Gilbert Ryle was an English philosopher born in 1900 who studied at Brighton College and Oxford University. He is considered a leader of analytic philosophy and is best known for his 1949 book The Concept of Mind, which criticized Cartesian dualism. Ryle argued that dualism involves category mistakes and proposed that minds are not separate from bodies. He believed philosophical problems stem from misuse of language and described the mind as the "ghost in the machine." Ryle distinguished between knowing-how

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Iris Pacheco

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