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She wrote on the philosophy of mind, philosophy of action, philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and ethics. Wittgenstein was a tortured man who fought his calling in philosophy and. A life inside the center, ray monk, author of peerless biographies of ludwig wittgenstein and bertrand russell, goes deeper than any previous biographer in the quest to solve the enigma of oppenheimers motivations and his complex personality. I can say without doubt that this is one of the best books i have ever read.
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