Gilbert Ryle

knowing how to tie a reef knot and knowing that Queen Victoria died in 1901) has attracted independent interest. They were also invited to ponder whether the bung-hole of a beer barrel is part of the barrel or not. A capable linguist he was recruited to intelligence work during World War II after which he returned to Oxford and was elected Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy and Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford.

". " Ryle having engaged in detailed study of the key works of Bernard Bolzano Franz Brentano Alexius Meinong Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger himself suggested instead that the book "could be described as a sustained essay in phenomenology if you are at home with that label. He was a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers who shared Wittgenstein's approach to philosophical problems and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine.