Wittgenstein és a pszichológia: néhány új szempont
Wittgenstein and Psychology: Some New Aspects

Summary/Abstract: The paper shows a dual inspiration of Wittgenstein in the context contemporary cognitive science and psychology. The radical reading of Wittgenstein suggests that no psychology is possible which assumes a hidden inner mental life. That would question most of present day cognitive psychology. The other reading of Wittgenstein shows him as a proponent of a need for a clear conceptual analysis of psychological notions and an interpretation of mental life in the framework of an analysis of how we talk about the mind. This later attitude has become a basic inspiration for present day representational theories of the mind that entertain an image in which the mind itself has a logical organization, with propositions and propositional attitudes within it. Modern cognitive science has in a way reversed the antipsychologist stance of Frege, shared by Wittgenstein, and smuggled propositions into the mind. This is accompanied by several features that challenge some key ideas of Wittgenstein. Contemporarycognitive studies do allow for inner,hidden representations and for theirevidences in observable behaviour, as instudies using eye movement and reactiontime measures to study the inner mind.

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