Gilbert Ryle was one of the most important and controversial philosophers of the Twentieth century. Long unavailable, Collected Papers Volume 1: Critical Essays includes many of Ryles most important and thought-provoking papers.
This volume contains 20 critical essays on the history of philosophy, including Plato, Locke and Hume as well as important chapters on Russell and Wittgenstein. It also includes three essays on phenomenology, including Ryles famous review of Martin Heideggers Being and Time first published in 1928. Although Ryle believed phenomenology will end in self-ruinous subjectivism or in a windy mysticism his review also acknowledged that Heidegger was a thinker of great originality and importance.
While surveying the developments in the philosophy of language and philosophical logic, Ryle sets out his own conception of the philosophers role against that of his predecessors and contemporaries.
Together with the second volume of Ryles collected papers Collected Essays 1929-1968 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.