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]

• Rey, Georges (1997). Contemporary Philosophy of Mind: A Contentiously Classical Approach. Wiley. ISBN 978-0-631-19071-4.^[3]

• Rey, Georges (2020). Representation of Language: Philosophical Issues in a Chomskyan Linguistics. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-885563-7.

• Georges Rey's faculty profile page at the University of Maryland
• The Language of Thought Hypothesis entry at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy includes mention of how Rey's Computational/Representational Theory of Thought relates to language of thought.