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The Library of Living Philosophers

Georg Hendrik von Wright

by Yujin Nagasawa

Georg Henrik von Wright, born in Helsinki, Finland in 1916, is arguably the best known Scandinavian philosopher. As one of the most prominent living philosophers in the analytic tradition, von Wright has built his reputation mainly in two different areas.

Firstly, he is known as an outstanding editor of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s writings. Von Wright first met Wittgenstein in 1939 when he went to Cambridge to meet C.D.

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