book. Like the previous volumes, itconsists of philosophical essays and exegesis. The thirteen essayscover all the major themes of this part of Wittgenstein'smasterpiece: the private language arguments, privacy, avowals anddescriptions, private ostensive definition, criteria, minds andmachines, behavior and behaviorism, the self, the inner and theouter, thinking, consciounesss, and the imagination. The exegesisclarifies and evaluates Wittgenstein's arguments, drawingextensively on all the unpublished papers, examining the evolutionof his ideas in manuscript sources and definitively settling manycontroversies about the interpretation of the published text.This commentary, like its predecessors, is indispensable for thestudy of Wittgenstein and is essential reading for students of thephilosophy of mind.A fourth and final volume, entitled Wittgenstein: Mind and Willwill complete the commentary.

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