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MEANING AND ACTIONS IN WITTGENSTEIN'S LATE PERSPECTIVE Rosaria EGIDI Universita degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza" In the remarks which Wittgenstein dedicated to the problem of action it is possible to recognize some lines of development which start in the writings of the transitional period and lead to the late works on philosophical psychology. That does not mean that he gradually arrived at an articulated theory of action, in the style that many later analytic philosophers attempted, but only that he managed with greater and greater perspicuity and coherence to insert his concept of "voluntary action" (willkarliche Handlung) and of "aim-oriented behaviour" (absichtliches Benehmen) in the network of subjects forming the non-designative and pragmatic view of meaning characteristic of his philosophy after the TLP.l 1. Abbreviations used in the text: TLP Tractatus logico-philosophicus, ed. by D.E Pears & B.P. McGuinness, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1961. . Z Zettel, ed. by G.E.M. Anscombe & G.H. von Wright. Trans. by GEM. Anscombe, Blackwell, Oxford 1967. PI Philosophical Investigations, ed. by GEM. Anscombe, Blackwell, Oxford 1953. RPP I Remarks on the Philosophy ofPsychology, VoL I, ed. by G.E.M. Anscombe & G.H. von Wright. Trans. by GEM. Anscombe, Blackwell, Oxford 1980.