In the final years of his tireless exploration of the problems related to “man’s place in nature”, which saw him produce pioneering work in numerous fields of analytical research, ranging from probability to deontic logic, the theories of action and norms to the philosophy of law, and from ethics to his studies on Wittgenstein, the great Scandinavian philosopher Georg Henrik von Wright (1916-2003) turned his attention to the philosophy of mind as it relates to rational agency and to its role in the construction of the world of facts. Leggi tutto »