Wittgenstein's Lectures : Cambridge, 1932-1935
Wittgenstein's Lectures : Cambridge, 1932-1935
- Oxford Basil Blackwell 1982
- 230: ill.
Babel," is a partly appreciative, but mostly critical, review (reprinted
from Philosophy) of Vendler's Res Cogitans.
Perhaps the most dated feature of these discussions is their total in-
nocence of the possibilities of computational functionalism as a sophis-
ticated philosophy of mind. Ryle rejects,-contemptuously and without
serious discussion, the suggestion that "the best thinkers in their best
moments are doing in their heads the sort of things that computing
machines do... " (52). And his only consideration of mental representa-
tion, an exciting topic in very recent philosophy of psychology, comes
in his dismissive treatment of (alleged) introspectibles.
Here is a nostalgia trip for Ryle's old admirers and an enticing
sampler for readers as yet unacquainted with Ryle's engagingly de-
flationary way of doing philosophy. But it is not a ground-breaking
work; it does not really advance our understanding of thinking much
beyond the stage of enlightenment that his earlier writings helped us
to attain.
631131663
"Philosophy Addresses. Essays, Lectures."
192.08 WIT
Babel," is a partly appreciative, but mostly critical, review (reprinted
from Philosophy) of Vendler's Res Cogitans.
Perhaps the most dated feature of these discussions is their total in-
nocence of the possibilities of computational functionalism as a sophis-
ticated philosophy of mind. Ryle rejects,-contemptuously and without
serious discussion, the suggestion that "the best thinkers in their best
moments are doing in their heads the sort of things that computing
machines do... " (52). And his only consideration of mental representa-
tion, an exciting topic in very recent philosophy of psychology, comes
in his dismissive treatment of (alleged) introspectibles.
Here is a nostalgia trip for Ryle's old admirers and an enticing
sampler for readers as yet unacquainted with Ryle's engagingly de-
flationary way of doing philosophy. But it is not a ground-breaking
work; it does not really advance our understanding of thinking much
beyond the stage of enlightenment that his earlier writings helped us
to attain.
631131663
"Philosophy Addresses. Essays, Lectures."
192.08 WIT