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Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953

By Gilbert Ryle

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
1107113628, 9781107113626
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
531 kB (543861 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Philosophy Classics
Pages
120\119
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2017-06-05 13:34:41
Consciousness & Thought;Philosophy;Politics & Soci

Description

Common sense tells me I can control my life to some extent; should I then, faced with a logical argument for fatalism, reject common sense? There seems to be no place in a physical theory of the universe for the sensory experiences of colours, taste and smells, yet I know I have these experiences. In this book, Gilbert Ryle explores the conflicts that arise in everyday life and shows that the either/or which such dilemmas seem to suggest is a false dilemma: one side of the dilemma does not deny what we know to be true on the other side. This classic book has been revived in a new series livery for twenty-first-century readers, featuring a specially commissioned preface written by Barry Stroud.

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