心灵及身体和吉尔伯特.赖尔的自我意识问题（英文）.pdf.pdf

PSIWORLD 2012 Mind versus Body and the Issue of Ego with Gilbert Ryle Elena Banciu* Ecological University of Bucarest, Bvd. Vasile Milea,1G, 061341, 6th District, Bucarest, Romania Abstract To understand the way in which Ryle approaches the mind-body issue – given his views on the scope and methodology of philosophy and on the complex relations among thinking, language, and reality – and the significance he assigned to the critique of what he called “traditional doctrine”, one needs to make a brief exposé of what Ryle saw as the paradigm of dualism: the Cartesian doctrine of the two substances. Ryle seeks to demonstrate that by its unilateral nature, the doctrine (and, later on, functionalism) ignored essential elements of the human being’s specificity: one’s mental life and one’s ego. Keywords: mind, body, ego, cartesianism, functionalism, Gilbert Ryle, hardware, software The current paper is a theoretical approach of metaphysics of the mind, having an area of interest in thought experiments and the abstract, as perceived by the history of philosophy. This approach is entitled to be regarded as an interdisciplinary one, at least through philosophy of mind’s simplistic definition, seen as a branch of philosophy studying the mind-body distinction, as well as other topics, such as mental