PHIL110A Study Guide - Final Guide: Thomas Nagel, Thought Experiment, Reductionism

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Gilbert ryle (born in brighton, england in 1900) was interested in logic and both classic and contemporary philosophy. He was appointed to the waynflete chair of metaphysical. Philosophy at oxford where he published the concept of mind. He was also the editor of a journal titled mind. We studied the first chapter of the concept of mind called descartes myth where he attacks and reconstructs the traditional view of descartes known as the official theory of the mind . This will prove the traditional theory is unsound. His description of the official theory of the mind is as follows . Every human being is a combination of a body and a mind. But there is an idea that the two are distinct because after the body dies, the mind continues to exist and function. Therefore, the identity of human beings is their minds.