Abstract

In his paper, Luigi Perissinotto provides an analysis of Wittgenstein’s dissolutionist approach to the mind-body problem. In doing this, he shows two essential aspects of Wittgenstein’s philosophy: the criticism of any form of dogmatism, and the importance of «grammatical fictions». In my commentary, I will focus on the link between the mind-body problem and the other minds problem, and on how Wittgenstein rejects both solipsism and behaviourism in his investigation of personal experience. The role, in most philosophical problems, of the rooted tendencies of our language, and of misleading analogies, will also be discussed.