Primary Literature

Here is a list of Ryle’s works cited in this entry.

• 1929, “Negation”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, suppl. vol. to IX, and reprinted in Collected Papers, vol. 2, pp. 1–11. (Scholar)
• 1930a, “Are There Propositions”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, XXX; reprinted in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 12–38. (Scholar)
• 1930b, “Are there Propositions?”, Philosophical Papers (Volume 2: Collected Essays), London and New York, Routledge, 2009, pp. 13–40. (Scholar)
• 1932, “Systematically Misleading Expressions”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 32: 139–170; page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 39–62. (Scholar)
• 1933a, “Imaginary Objects”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, suppl. vol. XII and reprinted in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 63–81. (Scholar)
• 1933b, “About”, Analysis, I, and reprinted in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 82–84. (Scholar)
• 1936, “Unverifiability-By-Me”, Analysis, IV, and reprinted in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 121–130. (Scholar)
• 1945, “Philosophical Arguments”, originally delivered as the Inaugural Lecture as Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, and reprinted in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 194–211. (Scholar)
• 1946a, “Knowing How and Knowing That”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, XLVI. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 212–225. (Scholar)
• 1946b, “Why are the Calculuses of Logic and Arithmetic Applicable to Reality?” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, suppl. XX. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 226–233. (Scholar)
• 1949a, The Concept of Mind, London: Hutchinson. Page references are to the 2000 republication, London: Penguin Books. (Scholar)
• 1949b, “Discussion of Rudolf Carnap: ‘Meaning and Necessity’”, Philosophy, vol. xxiv. Page reference is to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 1), pp. 225–235. (Scholar)
• 1950, “‘If’, ‘So’, and ‘Because’”, in Philosophical Analysis, M. Black (ed.), Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 234–249. (Scholar)
• 1951a, “The Verification Principle”, published in French in Revue Internationale de Philosophie, V and translated in English in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 287–293. (Scholar)
• 1951b, “Thinking and Language”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, suppl. XXV. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 258–271. (Scholar)
• 1953, “Ordinary Language”, Philosophical Review, LXII. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 301–318. (Scholar)
• 1954, Dilemmas: The Tarner Lectures 1953, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• 1956, “Sensation”, Contemporary British Philosophy (Third Series), edited by H.D. Lewis, London: George Allen & Unwin; reprinted in 1971b below, i.e., Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 349–362. (Scholar)
• 1957, “Theory of Meaning”, in British Philosophy in Mid-Century, C.A. Mace (ed.), London: George Allen & Unwin. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 350–372. (Scholar)
• 1962a, “Abstractions”, Dialogue (Canadian Philosophical Review), 1. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers, vol. 2, pp. 435–445. (Scholar)
• 1962b, “Phenomenology versus ‘The Concept of Mind’”, published in French in La Philosophie Analytique, Cahiers de Royaumont Philosophie, IV. Page references are to the English translation in Collected Papers (Volume 1), pp. 179–196. (Scholar)
• 1965, “John Locke”, Philosophical Papers (Volume 1: Critical Essays), London and New York, Routledge, 2009, pp. 154–164. (Scholar)
• 1968, “The Thinking of Thoughts: What is ‘Le Penseur’ Doing?”, University Lectures, The University of Saskatchewan. Page references are to the reprint in Collected Papers (Volume 2), pp. 480–496. (Scholar)
• 1970, “Autobiographical” in Wood and Pitcher (eds.), Ryle, pp. 1–15. (Scholar)
• 1971a, Collected Papers (Volume 1), London: Hutchinson.
• 1971b, Collected Papers (Volume 2), London: Hutchinson.
• 1979a, “Adverbial Verbs and Verbs of Thinking” in On Thinking, pp. 17–32. (Scholar)
• 1979b, “Thinking and Saying” in On Thinking, pp. 79–93. (Scholar)
• 1979c, “Negative ‘Actions’” in On Thinking, pp. 105–119. (Scholar)
• 1979d, On Thinking, K. Kolenda (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell.
• 1993a, “Privacy”, in Aspects of Mind, pp. 184–214. (Scholar)
• 1993b, “Avowals and Communication” in Aspects of Mind, pp. 215–218. (Scholar)
• 1993c, Aspects of Mind, Meyer, R. (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell.

In 2009, Routledge published the 60th anniversary edition of The Concept of Mind (including a critical commentary by the author of this entry), together with Ryle’s Collected Papers (Volumes 1 and 2, both of which include a preface by the author of this entry).

Secondary Literature

• Ayer, A.J., 1970, “An Honest Ghost?” in O.P. Wood and G. Pitcher (eds.), Ryle (Modern Studies in Philosophy), London: Palgrave, pp. 53–74. (Scholar)
• Bäckström, S. and Gustafsson, M., 2017, “Skill, Drill, and Intelligent Performance: Ryle and Intellectualism” in Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 5(5): 40–55. (Scholar)
• Bengson, J. and M. Moffett, 2012, “Two Conceptions of Mind and Action: Knowing How and the Philosophical Theory of Intelligence” (Introductory Essay), in Bengson and Moffet (eds.), Knowing How: Essays on Knowledge, Mind, and Action, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 3–55. (Scholar)
• Block, N., 1980, Readings in Philosophy of Psychology, (Volume I) , Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Fantl, Jeremy, 2017, “Knowledge How”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2017/entries/knowledge-how/>. (Scholar)
• Fodor, J.A. 1968, Psychological Explanation: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Psychology, New York: Random House. (Scholar)
• –––, 1975, The Language of Thought, New York: Crowell. (Scholar)
• Frege, Gottlob, 1919 [1956], “The Thought: A Logical Inquiry”, translation by A. and M. Quinton, Mind (New Series), 65(259): 289–311; original German “Der Gedanke. Eine Logische Untersuchung”, Beiträge zur Philosophie des deutschen Idealismus, I (1918–1919): 58–77. (Scholar)
• Gallop, D., 1977, “Some Reflections and Recollections: A Tribute”, reprinted in R. Meyer (ed.), Aspects of Mind: Gilbert Ryle, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 226–230. (Scholar)
• Ginet, Carl, 1975, Knowledge, Perception, and Memory, Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company. (Scholar)
• Hacker, P.M.S., 2006, “Soames’ History of Analytic Philosophy”, Philosophical Quarterly, 56(222): 121–131. (Scholar)
• Hempel, C., 1935 [1949], “The Logical Analysis of Psychology” in H. Feigl and W. Sellars (eds.), Readings in Philosophical Analysis, New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1949, pp. 373–384; this is a transation, by W. Sellars, from the original: “Analyse logique de la psychologie,” Revue de Synthese, 10: 27–42; page reference is to the reprint in N. Block (ed.) 1980, pp. 14–23. (Scholar)
• Kenny, A., 1989. The Metaphysics of Mind, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Kim, J., 2000, Mind in a Physical World—An Essay on the Mind-Body Problem and Mental Causation, Cambridge, MA: A Bradford Book, MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Kremer, M., 2017, “Ryle’s ‘Intellectualist Legend’ in Historical Context”, Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 5(5): 16–37. (Scholar)
• Mabbott, J.D., 1976, “Gilbert Ryle: A Tribute”, reprinted in Aspects of Mind, pp. 221–225. (Scholar)
• McGuinness, B. and Von Wright, G.H. (eds), 1995, Ludwig Wittgenstein: Cambridge Letters, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Monk, R. 1991, Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius , London: Vintage; first published by Jonathan Cape Ltd in 1990. (Scholar)
• Smith, P. and Jones, O.R., 1986, The Philosophy of Mind (An Introduction), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Soames, S., 2006, “Hacker’s Complaint”, Philosophical Quarterly, 56(224): 426–435. (Scholar)
• Stanley, J., and Williamson, T., 2001, “Knowing How”, Journal of Philosophy, 98(8): 411–444. (Scholar)
• Stanley, J., 2011a, “Knowing (How)”, Noûs, 45(2): 207–238. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011b, Know How, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Tanney, J. 1998, “How to Resist Mental Representations”, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 6(2): 264–278; reprinted in Tanney 2013. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009a, “Reasons as Non-Causal, Context-Placing Explanations” in New Essays on the Explanation of Action, Constantine Sandis (ed.), London: Palgrave MacMillian, pp. 94–111; reprinted in Tanney 2013. (Scholar)
• –––, 2009b, “Real Rules”, Synthese, 171(3): 499–507; reprinted in Tanney 2013. (Scholar)
• –––, 2011, “Ryle’s Regress and the Philosophy of Cognitive Science”, in S. Laugier and C. Al-Saleh (eds.), J.L. Austin et la Philosophie du Langage Ordinaire, Hildesheim, New York: Olms, pp. 477–467; reprinted in Tanney 2013. (Scholar)
• –––, 2013, Rules, Reasons, and Self-Knowledge, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Wood, O. P., and Pitcher, G., 1970, Ryle, London: MacMillan. (Scholar)
• Wright, C., Smith, B., MacDonald, C. (eds.), 1998, Knowing Our Own Minds, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Scholar)
• Urmson, J.O., 1967, “Ryle, Gilbert” in Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 7, P. Edwards (ed.), New York: Macmillan, The Free Press, and London: Collier Macmillan, pp. 269–271. (Scholar)
• Warnock, G.J., 1979, “Preface” to On Thinking, Oxford: Blackwell, pp. ix–xv. (Scholar)
• Wittgenstein, L., 1953, Philosophical Investigations, G.E.M. Anscombe (trans.), Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)