Resumen de Wittgenstein’s Anti-descriptivism

Juan José Acero Fernández, Alberto Neftalí Villanueva Fernández

• The aim of this paper is to show that Wittgenstein’s anti-descriptivist approach to the meaning of mental states ascriptions is not restricted to a particular kind of first person mental states attributions –avowals. Our strategy is threefold. We will first provide textual evidence to make it apparent that Wittgenstein’s non-relational treatment of mental states ascriptions is not restricted to avowals. Secondly, we will analyze three different arguments provided by Wittgenstein against the relational nature of mental states ascriptions. Finally, we will develop some ideas to try and make sense of the claim that by using third-person mental states ascriptions we are not describing, but expressing mental states.