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  Waynflete Professorships - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The oldest professorship is the Waynflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy.
The professorships are the Waynflete Professor of Chemistry, the Waynflete Professor of Physiology, and the Waynflete Professor of Pure Mathematics.
The four heads of the Dyson Perrins Laboratory were four consecutive Waynflete Professors of Chemistry, from its foundation in 1916 as the University's research centre for organic chemistry to its retirement in 2003.
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 Gilbert Ryle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilbert Ryle (1900–1976), was a philosopher, and a representative of the generation of British ordinary language philosophers influenced by Wittgenstein's insights into language, and is principally known for his critique of Cartesian dualism, for which he coined the phrase "the ghost in the machine".
A capable linguist, he was recruited to intelligence work during World War II, after which he became Wayneflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy at Oxford, and published his principal work, "The Concept of Mind" in 1949.
In philosophy the two major post-war schools in the philosophy of mind, the representationalism of Jerry Fodor and the functionalism of Wilfrid Sellars posited precisely the 'internal' cognitive states that Ryle had argued against.
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 Gilbert Ryle - One Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
He referred to some of his ideas as "behaviourism" (not to be confused with the psychological behaviourism of B.
The book was recognized on its appearance as an important contribution to philosophical psychology, and an important work in the ordinary language philosophy movement.
However as Daniel Dennett has pointed out, recent trends in psychology such as embodied cognition, discursive psychology, situated cognition and others in the post-cognitivist tradition have provoked a renewal in interest in Ryle's work.
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With the agreement of the relevant persons and boards, the Regius Professor of Divinity and the Wayneflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy will no longer be members of the electoral board ex officio, and the Mathematical Sciences and Biological Sciences Boards will no longer be represented on the electoral board.
Where subject 199 (Thesis in Philosophy) is taken, the body responsible for approving applications is the Board of the Faculty of Literae Humaniores.
Ancient Philosophy (1) Plato: either (a) Republic, or (b) Theaetetus and Sophist; (2) Aristotle: either (a) Nicomachean Ethics or (b) Physics; (3) Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Pyrrhonism.
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 Ryle Gilbert - new and used books
Professor Ryle's discusses pairs of theories, and to show that the either/or they insist on is a false dilemma.
Ryle was Wayneflete Professor of metaphysical philosophy in the University of Oxford.
Considered as one of the most influential works of British philosophy in the 20th century, this examination of ideas of knowledge, imagination, consciousness and the intellect was first published in 1949.
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Sir Peter Frederick Strawson, former Wayneflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, died on Monday aged 86.
He held the post from 1968 to 1987 but had established his reputation in a 1950 article ‘On Referring’ in which he dispute Bertrand Russell’s theory of definite descriptions.
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 The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics: Collingwood, Robin George @ HighBeam Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-02)
Collingwood, Robin George (1889–1943) British philosopher and archaeologist (specializing on Roman Britain), Wayneflete Professor of Metaphysical Philosophy, Magdalen College, Oxford University, 1935–41.
Collingwood's work as a philosopher was wide-ranging, covering metaphysics, aesthetics, the philosophy of mind and of history.
His The Idea of History, published posthumously in 1945, received particular attention by later philosophers of history.
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