![]() ![]() Although some of Ryle’s lectures and talks were assembled posthumously (with an admirable introduction) by one of his students (Ryle 1979), there was no book-length treatment and, it must be said, no particular peg which would tie together the several nuanced and detailed observations that his survey of the landscape occupied by the concept of thought and thinking reveals. ![]() Ryle’s response was that though he had collected various items - a hat, a cap, a mackintosh, a scarf, and a few other things - he had not yet found a peg on which to hang them. ![]() At the end of the discussion Magee asked Ryle if his work on thinking, which he had begun in earnest the year after the publication of The Concept of Mind and was still in train 20 years later, would reveal its fruits in a forthcoming book. A few years before he passed away, Ryle discussed his work with Bryan Magee in one of a series of conversations with influential philosophers first broadcast on BBC radio in the winter of 1970–1 and later published, with extensive revisions, as Modern British Philosophy (Magee 1971). ![]()
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