PHIL 200 Study Guide - Final Guide: Category Mistake, Gilbert Ryle
21 Jan 2019
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It is a category mistake according to ryle. It considers mind and body to be extremely distinct. The official theory (the ghost in the machine) (descartes" myth): they are two different kinds of things. In space: public, observable, subject to mechanical laws, physical external" matter. The official theory involves a category mistake according to ryle. It is a mistake to think that the university is something over and above the colleges, libraries, museums etc. It is a mistake to think that the mind is something over and above (e. g. ) body, or the brain for instance. Thus: things can be: physical, governed by mechanical laws, automatic/non-rational behavior, mechanical causal principles, mental, governed by non-mechanical laws (then the mental might still form a mental deterministic system?) Gilbert ryle criticizes the impression that mind is a separate concept from the body, and argues the assumption that mental states are distinct from physical states.
