ABSTRACT
In this chapter the author describes the 'inner-object model' of mental occurrences, i.e. the kind of dualist position that Wittgenstein argued against in different areas of the philosophy of mind. It also discusses the prevalent misconception with regard to bodily sensations and other minds, understanding, thinking and voluntary action. Wittgenstein's objection to Cartesian dualism is not that it exaggerates the distinction between the mental and the physical, but, on the contrary, that it makes it appear too slight. The dualist conception of psychological phenomena is too much shaped after our concept of physical objects or events. There is a strong temptation to think that when we have understood in general how to proceed, somehow all the correct applications must be laid down in advance in the mind, so that each step can be justified by reference to that perfect mental instruction manual.
