Gilbert Ryle
Gilbert Ryle Gilbert Ryle was born in Brighton, England, on 19 August 1900 and died in Whitby, North Yorkshire, on 6 October 1976. He read classics and then philosophy at The Queen’s College, Oxford, became a tutor at Christ Church (1925–1940), and during the Second World War served in the Welsh Guards on intelligence work. After the war he was elected Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford, and he edited the journal Mind from 1947 to 1971. He was a leading figure of what is often called Oxford “ordinary language philosophy,” although he preferred to describe his method as charting the “logical geography” of concepts, that is, how expressions of different categories behave logically. ...