Gilbert Ryle's father, Reginald John Ryle, was a Brighton doctor, a generalist who had interests in philosophy and astronomy, passing on to his children a large library; he was a son of John Charles Ryle, the first Anglican Bishop of Liverpool.
12 Facts About Gilbert Ryle
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Gilbert Ryle was born in Brighton, England, on 19 August 1900, and grew up in an environment of learning.
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Gilbert Ryle was educated at Brighton College and in 1919 went up to The Queen's College at Oxford to study classics, but was drawn to philosophy.
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Gilbert Ryle graduated with a "triple first"; he received first-class honours in classical Honour Moderations, literae humaniores, and philosophy, politics, and economics.
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In 1924, Gilbert Ryle was appointed lecturer in philosophy at Christ Church, Oxford.
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Gilbert Ryle was president of the Aristotelian Society from 1945 to 1946, and editor of the philosophical journal Mind from 1947 to 1971.
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Gilbert Ryle died on 6 October 1976 at Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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Gilbert Ryle was the subject of a portrait by Rex Whistler, which he said made him look like "a drowned German General".
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Gilbert Ryle was a lifelong bachelor, and in retirement he lived with his twin sister Mary.
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Gilbert Ryle thought it no longer possible to believe that a philosopher's task is to study mental as opposed to physical objects.
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Competent speakers of a language, Gilbert Ryle believes, are to a philosopher what ordinary villagers are to a mapmaker: the ordinary villager has a competent grasp of his village, and is familiar with its inhabitants and geography.
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Philosopher Daniel Dennett, a student of Gilbert Ryle's, has said that recent trends in psychology such as embodied cognition, discursive psychology, situated cognition, and others in the post-cognitivist tradition, have provoked a renewed interest in Gilbert Ryle's work.