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A Dictionary of Philosophy (3 ed.)
... in the machine Derogatory epithet coined by Ryle for the nature of the person according to Cartesian dualism...
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Geoffrey Warnock
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
... in the machine . Gilbert Ryle in his book The Concept of Mind held that the ‘Cartesian’ tradition represents the human body as a purely physical thing (the machine), and the human mind as a purely non-physical thing (the ghost) somehow inhabiting the body and ‘operating’ it from inside. ‘The ghost in the machine’ is his derisive title for this—as Ryle argues—fundamentally misleading picture. Sir Geoffrey Warnock See also self ; persons ; subjectivity ; category mistake . G. Ryle , The Concept of Mind (London, 1949),...
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A Dictionary of Psychology (4 ed.)
... in the machine n . The term first used by the English philosopher Gilbert Ryle ( 1900–76 ) on page 17 of his book The Concept of Mind ( 1949 ) to describe the dogma of mind–body dualism , which he interpreted as a category mistake...
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Brewer's Dictionary of Modern Phrase & Fable (2 ed.)
... in the machine . The mind (‘ghost’) as distinct from the body (‘machine’). The expression was coined by the philosopher Gilbert Ryle in The Concept of Mind ( 1949 ). The phrase is sometimes used in a derogatory sense by critics of the dualism exemplified by Descartes' distinction between the material body and the immaterial...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
...- Ghost In The Machine After a brief shaky start the Police could suddenly do no wrong. They embraced the 80s and devoured it with their insatiable desire for success. On this transitional album they retained some of their patented white reggae sound, notably with the opener ‘Spirits In The Material World’. This intense song is followed by the celebratory ‘Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic’ which in turn leads on to the politically-charged ‘Invisible Sun’ These three were all massive hits, and the band can be forgiven for not being able to maintain the...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...science, of a kind voiced in Mary *Shelley 's Frankenstein ( 1818 ), but it was also conversely attractive to poets like Shelley and Coleridge, eager to experiment with the vitalist forces of the imagination. Theories of the nerves and of hypnotism helped to undermine the entrenched idea that the body was essentially mechanical and that the mind, or soul, was a mere ghost in the machine. The dualism introduced by the scientific revolution, endorsed by the philosophy of Descartes and associated in the *Enlightenment [32] with the progress of science, was...
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An Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age
...in conjunction with several provincial preaching tours, carried her words to tens of thousands of followers ranged over the West Country, the Midlands, and the industrial North. This blend of traditional and modern belief was as evident in the content as in the form of many popular cultural products of the day. Clare cited numbers of his Helpstone friends, including a relatively well-educated farmer's son, John Turnill , who believed in the vivid reality of supernatural forces such as ghosts, spirits, and witches. Clare himself was always unpersuaded by the...
24 The History of the Book in Germany Reference library
John L. Flood
The Oxford Companion to the Book
..., duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel ( 1633–1714 ). Such novels primarily reflected the absolutist court ideal, and served as vehicles for moral or political ideas of the kind young noblemen were expected to imbibe. In the 18 th century, however, a market developed for travel novels, love stories, ghost stories, novels about knights and robbers, and more besides. The epistolary novel became fashionable, Goethe’s * Werther ( 1774 ) becoming the best-seller of the century, with authorized editions far outnumbered by piracies and translations. Translated works...
Essay with Commentary on Post-Biblical Jewish Literature Reference library
Philip S. Alexander
The Oxford Bible Commentary
...suffering here (in this life) their spirits receive a lesser punishment, and retribution shall not be exacted from them on the day of judgement nor shall they be raised from there.’ Comment: The gloomy netherworld (Sheol) of earlier Hebrew thought (the equivalent of the Homeric Hades), into which the spirits of the dead, good and bad alike, descend, is here compartmentalized. In earlier tradition the dead survive only as attentuated, barely sentient ghosts. Here they experience a more vivid life and feel intensely pleasure and pain. The four compartments...
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