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Looking at the development of Professor von Wright’s philosophy, one could be surprised by the fact that, until very recently, he didn’t appear interested in the mind-body problem. In his “Intellectual Autobiography”, written in 1972–73, for example, von Wright writes — referring to his youthful interest in the mind-body problem and the other fundamental metaphysical questions about the nature of reality — that “strangely enough, this is an aerea in which, as an active philosopher I have (so far) done no work at all”.1
Materialism is the asymptote of psychology
G. Ch. Lichtenberg, Aphorismen
I am very grateful to Prifessor Rosaria Egidi, Professor Hilary Putnam and Professor G. H. von Wright who made very udeful comments on a previoud version of this paper.
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De Caro, M. (1999). Von Wright on the Mind-Body Problem. In: Egidi, R. (eds) In Search of a New Humanism. Synthese Library, vol 282. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1852-3_13
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