biography
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| (1900–76)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Brighton, East Sussex, SE England, UK. He studied at Brighton and Oxford, where he was a tutor, served in World War 2, then became professor of metaphysical philosophy at Oxford (1945–68) and editor of Mind (1947–71). He was an influential defender of linguistic or ‘ordinary language’ philosophy, and is best known for his book The Concept of Mind (1949), which argued against the mind/body dualism (‘the ghost in the machine’) proposed by Descartes. |
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