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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Ryle"”.
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John Charles Ryle: An Intellectual Biography
… is an intellectual biography of John Charles Ryle, the first Bishop of Liverpool. Chapter 1 focuses on Ryle’s intellectual, theological, and spiritual formation. Special attention is given to his home, education at Eton and Oxford, conversion, religious opinions, and unexpected entrance into …
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Re-examining the Cartesian mind: Dispelling a myth
… the mental. In The Concept of Mind, for example, Ryle portrayed Descartes as positing a nonphysical ""place"" where mental events and processes resided. Psychological states were taken to be private, internal objects to which we had access by a special kind of perceptual process, namely, …
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On the concept of a heedful frame of mind in the work of Gilbert Ryle : the problems of its episodic nature and its relation to the issue of voluntariness
… into the notion of 'heed', posited by Gilbert Ryle as a 'dispositional' alternate to the traditional philosophical notions of the 'Will', and of 'volition'. Ryle admits, however, that this notion is problematic in that, as a reference to an episodic 'frame of mind', it threatens to entail the …
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Concepts of soul : an investigation into the concepts of the soul current at the inception of Christianity
… and many others; in philosophy by Gilbert Ryle, among others. In psychology, we find that as early as 1926, at an International Psychological Conference, Pavlov declared that we must abandon the misleading term "soul". He stated that, in his opinion, "the proper study of psychology is …
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Skill and Virtue after 'Know-How'
… of ‘knowledge-how’ that begin with Gilbert Ryle. Chapter 1 offers an account of Ryle’s interest in the notion of knowledge-how as partially underpinned by the hope that ethical virtue might be well-understood as a kind of skill. The chapter concludes, however, by noting that he eventually …
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Practical knowledge and abilities
… slogan, familiar from the work of Gilbert Ryle, that know-how is a kind of knowledge-that. The distinction allows us to clarify the issues that are at stake in the debate and see the possibility of a position that combines aspects of both Intellectualism and anti-Intellectualism. An …
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Putting the Ghost Back in the Machine: A Defense of Common Sense Dualism
<p>Gilbert Ryle once ridiculed substance dualism, describing it as the view that we are a "ghost in the machine." Since that time, substance dualism has found few defenders, and a presumption toward naturalism has dominated philosophical inquiry. Here, I offer an unapologetic defense this …
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Group therapy integrated with CAT: interactive Group therapy integrated with cognitive analytic therapy, understandings and tools
… Analytic Therapy (CAT) tools and understandings (Ryle & Kerr, 2002) into a time-limited (16 sessions) interactive, here-and-now, group therapy (Yalom,1985). Group members were not exposed to CAT or individual work with the two facilitators prior to the group. The study investigated the group …
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Evidence in Neurophenomenology
… forms of evidence. According to some critics (Ryle 1949; Dennett 1991; Hardcastle 1996), the inclusion of phenomenological and therefore subjective, biased, and anecdotal first-person accounts of experience and cognition are of little utility or compatibility with a ‘hard science’ such as …
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Moral reasons of our own
… Metaethics. Taking my inspiration from Gilbert Ryle, I cash this out in terms of the Second-Personal account's reacting to the category-mistakenness of traditional Metaethics, by reconceiving moral reasons as belonging to a different kind of category altogether. When we understand morality …
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Mechanism and rationality : the case for explanatory incompatibilism
… version of compatibilism as advocated by Ryle and Melden. This version is rejected for two main reasons: (1) it fails to keep the two sorts of explanation sufficiently apart so as to render them compatible, and (2) it fails to show that intentional explanations are not a species of causal …
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System Identification and State Estimation for Intake Manifold Charge Flow Temperature of a Compression Ignition Diesel Engine
<p>Intake manifold charge temperature is a factor used in mean value engine models (MVEMs) for the calculation of intake mass air charge and oxygen flow. More stringent emission requirements have led to increased deployment of more advanced engine combustion models onto production engine …
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Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s Politics of Adab: knowledge, journalism and policing public sociability in 19th century Egypt
This thesis challenges the conventional view of Muḥammad ʿAbduh’s reform ideas in broad and binary terms as bridging a gap between ‘Islam and Europe’ or ‘tradition and modernity’. I offer instead an analysis of ʿAbduh’s reformist thought in his own words and local practical context in 19th century …
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Multi-culturalism, race, intersectionality and the polyphonic self: structural and societal positions
… Cognitive Analytic Psychotherapy (Anthony Ryle), including the work of Vygotsky, his socio-cultural theory and Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism, have been central and have provided the backdrop to my work. The work of Frantz Fanon and Suman Fernando provided the scaffolding needed to discuss …
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Epistemological implications of representational pluralism
… know-how debate going back to Gilbert Ryle. I argue that, since Ryle’s time, two debates have been taking place in the know-how literature: one regarding the semantic analysis of know-how ascriptions and another regarding how we ought to explain various skills or abilities. The first …