Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and yet misunderstood philosophers of the Twentieth Century. Long unavailable, Collected Papers Volume 2: Collected Essays 1929-1968 stands as testament to the astonishing breadth of Ryles philosophical concerns.
This volume showcases Ryles 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, Systematically Misleading Expressions, and A Puzzling Element in the Notion of Thinking. He ranges over an astonishing number of topics, including feelings, pleasure, sensation, forgetting and concepts and in so doing hones his own philosophical stance, steering a careful path between behaviourism and Cartesianism.
Together with the first volume of Ryles collected papers Critical Essays and the 60th Anniversary edition of The Concept of Mind, these outstanding essays represent the very best of Ryles work. Each volume contains a substantial preface by Julia Tanney, and both are essential reading for any student of Twentieth Century philosophy of mind and language.
Gilbert Ryle (1900 -1976) was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics and Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, an editor of the Mind, and a president of the Aristotelian Society.
Julia Tanney teaches at the University of Kent, and has held visiting positions at the University of Picardie and Paris-Sorbonne.
