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Gilbert Ryle: Category Mistake

Category Mistake

• Gilbert Ryle was a British philosopher who belonged to the era of the 20^th century Western Philosophy. He is also known as a behaviorist. Behaviourism is a psychological theory which believes that behaviour can explain one՚s conditioning without one expressing one՚s thoughts or feelings, etc.
• Ryle is most famous for expressing his views or presenting his critique against the father of rationalism, Renee Descartes՚ philosophical doct…

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Gilbert Ryle: Critique of Cartesian Dualism

Critique of Cartesian Dualism

• According to Ryle, if one were to accept the differentiation between mind and body as proposed by Descartes, a number of irresolvable problems arise. Some of the irresolvable problems of the Cartesian dualism pointed out by Ryle are;
  • Mind is composed of consciousness and body is composed of matter. This gives rise to an assumption that there are two kinds of existence- mental and physical. So, mind becomes a disembodied being or “ghost…

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