Strongly influenced by Schopenhauer, this work may be best known for attacking the view that the mental and physical act in parallel but do not interact, also known as Descartes' mind-body dualism.
This work puts forth "ionisation" as a technical term that is both legitimate and useful, while the idea of volition falls into the category of currently useless technical terms like "phlogiston". One section of this work posits that the sensations of lunatics occupy only a small corner of the field of sensations of normal people. This work suggests that an individual that calls himself "I" does not really understand what "I" means, which may be a (*) "category mistake", a term coined in this work. Strongly influenced by Schopenhauer, this work may be best known for attacking the view that the mental and physical act in parallel but do not interact, also known as Descartes' mind-body dualism. Putting forth the doctrine of the "ghost in the machine", for 10 points, name this 1949 work by Gilbert Ryle.
This work puts forth "ionisation" as a technical term that is both legitimate and useful, while the idea of volition falls into the category of currently useless technical terms like "phlogiston".
The Concept of Mind