COLLECTED PAPERS: Gilbert Ryle. Volume I: Critical Essays by Ryle, Gilbert - 1971

Barnes & Noble, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. [From the library of noted scholar Richard A. Macksey.] Volume 1. Hardcover and dust jacket. Tears to jacket. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. 291 p., 24 cm. <br> "Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher, leading figure in the 'Oxford philosophy,' or 'ordinary language,' movement. Ryle's first book, The Concept of Mind (1949), is considered a modern classic. In it he challenges the traditional distinction between body and mind as delineated by Rene Descartes. Traditional Cartesian dualism, Ryle says, perpetrates a serious confusion when, looking beyond the human body (which exists in space and is subject to mechanical laws), it views the mind as an additional mysterious thing not subject to observation or to mechanical laws, rather than as the form or organizing principle of the body. What Ryle deems to be logically incoherent dogma of Cartesianism he labels as the doctrine of the… Read More

Barnes & Noble, 1971. Hardcover. Good.

Barnes & Noble, 1971-01-01. Hardcover. Clean & Unmarked/Very Good. 0x0x0. Volume 1. A very nice clean & straight copy in like dust-wrapper. A handsome copy in gift quality condition. 291 pp

New York: Barnes & Noble, 1971. First U.S. Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. A Near Fine copy in brown cloth, in a Near Fine dust jacket.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.