Reinterpreting Ryle: A nonbehaviorist analysis

Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (2):265-90 (1994)
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Abstract

This paper argues that the behaviorist label yields a caricature of Ryle's position in The Concept of Mind that cannot be adequately fleshed out by reference to the larger corpus of Rylean texts. On the interpretation of Ryle that I offer here, he is best characterized as an "ontological agnostic." Ryle's aim, I believe, is to develop a nondenotational theory of meaning for mental-conduct terms--a theory of meaning which does not presuppose any metaphysical or ontological theory and, hence, does not presuppose behaviorism.

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Shelley M. Park
University of Central Florida

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