Gilbert Ryles» famous
critique of dualism, for example, is unsatisfactory since in the final analysis it differs little from the old - fashioned materialism
of behaviorists like J.B. Watson, for whom distinct «inner» states
of awareness do not exist.18 In general, it is «irritating» to Lewis that so many distinguished philosophers fail to recognize the appropriateness
of «the Platonic - Cartesian way.