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Human Attention as a Philosophical Problem: The Question, and the Nature of Questions

open access: yesMetaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 3-22, January 2026.
Abstract Human attention has become a touchstone of widespread concern across the humanities, sciences, and broader culture in much of the world. The emergence of a new, heavily capitalized, and technologically sophisticated industry “commodifying” human attention (what has been called “human fracking”) has given rise to a transdisciplinary ...
D. Graham Burnett
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Ryle and the para-mechanical [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
journal articleThe thesis of this paper is the unconventional claim that Gilbert Ryle is not a logical behaviorist. The popular account of Ryle clearly places his work in The Concept of Mind (1949) in the camp of logical behaviorist.1 The object of this ...
Benham, Bryan
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G. Ryle. Proofs in philosophy / trans. from Engl. A. V. Nekhaev [PDF]

open access: yesОмский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"
The essay examines the characteristic features of philosophical argumentation. The aims and structure of philosophical argumentation are contrasted with the aims and structure of logical and mathematical proofs.
A. V. Nekhaev
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Rather more on AI from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 1, Page 3-24, January 2026.
Abstract In a recent paper in this journal, ‘AI from the point of view of ordinary language’ (Kemp, G. (2025). ‘AI from the point of view of ordinary language’, Philosophical Investigations: 48(3): 290–298), Gary Kemp presents himself with a large and challenging task, where the dangers of going wildly wrong are not to be underestimated.
Paul Standish
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Macdonald Before Quine on Truth by Convention

open access: yesPacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 106, Issue 4, Page 188-199, December 2025.
ABSTRACT I show that Margaret Macdonald anticipated Quine's well‐known criticisms of logical conventionalism in her unpublished 1934 PhD thesis, but that she later developed her criticisms in a direction distinct from that of Quine under the influence of Wittgenstein. Macdonald rejected as senseless the suggestion that statements of logical truth admit
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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Bridging the Intellectualist Divide: A Reading of Stanley’s Ryle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Gilbert Ryle famously denied that knowledge-how is a species of knowledge-that, a thesis that has been contested by so-called “intellectualists.” I begin by proposing a rearrangement of some of the concepts of this debate, and then I focus on Jason ...
Navarro Reyes, Jesús
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Understanding (and) culture: Working out Sacks’s aphorism

open access: yesPrzegląd Socjologiczny
This essay is a batch of reflections on and extensions of a short passage from notes made by Harvey Sacks in preparation for a lecture presented in the Fall term 1965 at UCLA.
Alec McHoul
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A DISTINÇÃO ENTRE SABER-COMO E SABER-QUE DE GILBERT RYLE E SUAS POSSÍVEIS APLICAÇÕES NO CAMPO DA ÉTICA

open access: yesPolymatheia, 2021
No presente artigo, faremos uma breve discussão sobre a crítica elaborada por Ryle à epistemologia moral, em específico à teoria intelectualista. A partir desta crítica e de suas elaborações acerca da relação entre a consideração de proposições versus a
Beatris da Silva Seus
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Telepathy, Other Minds, and Category Errors

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1088-1099, September 2025.
Abstract In this paper, I explore several issues surrounding what is called “telepathy” in the context of the problem of other minds. I begin with a quick review of the conditions in which this notion arose and the difficulties to which it gave rise upon its introduction.
Sébastien Motta
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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 249-268, July 2025.
Abstract It is customary to present René Descartes as the initiator of the problem of other minds in modern philosophy. Briefly, the other minds problem is this. (1) Our acquaintance with thinking relies on inner observation or introspection. (2) In contrast, our observations of others can only access their body surfaces and behaviour.
Olli Lagerspetz
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