Ryle on Mind and Language

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by  David Dolby (eds.)

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KANT ON EMOTION AND VALUE
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PLATO ON ART AND BEAUTY
David Dolby (editorr )
RYLE ON MIND AND LANGUAGE
Edward Feser ( editorr )
ARISTOTLE ON METHOD AND METAPHYSICS
Brian Garvey (editorr)
J. L. AUSTIN ON LANGUAGE
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SPINOZA ON MONISM
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MILL ON JUSTICE
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HEGEL ON ACTION
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SARTRE ON THE BODY
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Ryle on Mind and
Language
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David Dolby
University of Zurich, Switzerland
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Ryle on mind and language / David Dolby, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
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1. Ryle, Gilbert, 1900–1976. 2. Philosophy of mind. 3. Language and
languages – Philosophy. I. Dolby, David, 1979–
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In Memoriam
Bede Rundle
( 1937–2011)
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Contents
Acknowledgements viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction 1
David Dolby
1 Ryle and Strawson on Category Mistakes 9
Jonathan Dancy
2 Nothing Categorical on Categories 26
Hans-Johann Glock
3 Ryle on Hypotheticals 56
Roger Teichmann
4 Ryle on Motives and Dispositions 74
Maria Alvarez
5 Ryle’s Conceptions of Emotional Behaviour 9 7
Rowland Stout
6 What Is L e Penseurr Really Doing? 116
Paul F. Snowdon
7 A Peg for Some Thoughts 126
Julia Tanney
8 Ryle on Perception 146
Christoph C. Pfisterer
9 Mental Occurrences and Terminus Verbs 165
Bede Rundle
Index 179
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Acknowledgements
I would like to thank the series editor Constantine Sandis as well as
Priyanka Gibbons and Brendan George at Palgrave Macmillan for their
support and assistance. I am also grateful to Kai Büttner, Nicole Rathgeb,
and Severin Schroeder for their help with editorial matters. Finally, I
should like to thank all of the authors for their hard work and stimu-
lating contributions.
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Notes on Contributors
Maria Alvarez is Reader in Philosophy at King’s College London. She is
the author of several articles on the philosophy of action, normativity,
and free will. Her book Kinds of Reasons: An Essay in the Philosophy of
Actionappeared in 2010.
Jonathan Dancy is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas
at Austin, and Senior Research Professor at the University of Reading.
He has published widely in the areas of moral philosophy, the philos-
ophy of action, epistemology, and early modern philosophy. His books
include Moral Reasons (1993), Practical Realityy(2000), and Ethics Without
Principles (2004).
David D olby teaches philosophy at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Previously he was a Lecturer at the University of Reading, UK. He has
published a number of articles on the philosophy of logic and language
and is currently writing a monograph on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of
mathematics together with Severin Schroeder.
Hans-Johann G lock is Professor of Philosophy at the University of
Zurich and Visiting Professor at the University of Reading. His publi-
cations include: as author, A Wittgenstein Dictionaryy (1996), Q uine and
Davidson on Language, Thought and Realityy (2003), and What is Analytic
Philosophy? (2008); as editor, Strawson and Kantt (2003), and (with John
Hyman) Wittgenstein and Analytic Philosophyy(2009).
Christoph C. P fistererr is Visiting Scholar at the University of California,
Berkeley. He received his PhD from the University of Zurich. His primary
philosophical interests lie in the philosophy of language, the philos-
ophy of mind, logic, and epistemology. He is currently writing about the
relation between language and perception.
Bede Rundle w as Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Trinity College,
Oxford. His books include P erception, Sensation and Verification (1972),
Grammar in Philosophyy(1979), Wittgenstein and Contemporary Philosophy
of Language(1990), Mind in Action (1997), Why There is Something Rather
than Nothingg(2004), and Time, Space and Metaphysics (2009).
Paul F. Snowdon is Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at University
College London. He has published numerous articles on the nature of
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