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Georges Leon Rey (born 1945) is an American philosopher. He is a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland.
Rey received a doctoral degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1978. [1] His thesis was titled The possibility of psychology: some preliminary issues, [1] and was completed under Hilary Putnam.[ citation needed]
His book Contemporary Philosophy of Mind discusses the topic of philosophy of mind.[ citation needed] One major focus of Rey's exposition relates to eliminativism and instrumentalism, particularly with respect to the mental states that we are subjectively aware of by way of introspection.[ citation needed] Rey is the author of the current article on philosophy of mind at Encyclopædia Britannica Online. [2]