Gilbert Ryle

The four dimensions in the 16-axis model where this thinker scores highest. People in this archetype tend to lean the same way.

• TDTheoretical Drive

  8 / 10
• TRTrust in Reason

  7 / 10
• TETrust in Experience

  7 / 10
• SRSkeptical Reflex

  7 / 10

The six thinkers whose 16-dimensional positions sit closest to this one. Useful as next-reading suggestions.

• Ian HackingTOUCHSTONE

  Representing and Intervening — making up people; styles of reasoning.

• Nelson GoodmanTOUCHSTONE

  Fact, Fiction, and Forecast — grue, and ways of worldmaking.

• Jenann IsmaelCARTOGRAPHER

  The self as a temporal pattern — physics meets first-person experience.

• Tamar SchapiroTOUCHSTONE

  Inclination as raw material for the will; agency reformed by reasons.

• Stuart HampshireTOUCHSTONE

  Thought and action; freedom found in deliberation, not behind it.

• David LewisCARTOGRAPHER

  On the Plurality of Worlds — every possibility is a real world.

Concepts where Gilbert Ryle sits in the conversation. Each links to a primer.

• The mind-body problem
  How does the wet electrical mass between your ears produce the experience of being you?

Short exercises in the same tradition as Gilbert Ryle's thought. Each takes 5–25 minutes.

• Fallacy hunt →

  Pick a real argument from the wild and find three reasoning errors in it.

• Counterexample drill →

  Try to break a moral rule with a single concrete case.

• Steelmanning the opposite →

  Write the strongest possible version of the view you most reject.