Gilbert Ryle as a critic of phenomenology
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https://doi.org/10.25206/2542-0488-2025-10-4-106-112Keywords:
phenomenology, analytic philosophy, Gilbert Ryle, Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, ordinary language, conceptual analysisAbstract
The article refers to Gilbert Ryle’s (1900–1976) critical approach to phenomenology as an example of wider topic of analytic and continental philosophy divide. Earlier constructive objections on eidetic intuition, theory of essences, doctrine of intentionality and reduction finally coalesced in Ryle’s total rejection of phenomenology and its universalistic claims. So, it made clear that solving particular puzzles with the method of conceptual analysis is the main feature of analytic philosophy of that time. Such approach should be considered philosophically restricted and insufficient for solving problems posed by phenomenology.
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