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Dale Jacquette - Wittgenstein and Psychology: A Practical Guide - Journal of the History of Philosophy 45:1 Journal of the History of Philosophy 45.1 169-170 Muse Search Journals This Journal Contents Reviewed by Dale Jacquette The Pennsylvania State University Rom Harré and Michael Tissaw, Wittgenstein and Psychology: A Practical Guide. Aldershot-Burlington: Ashgate, 2005. Pp. xi + 310. Paper, $34.95. Wittgenstein in his later writings comments perceptively on what he describes as the philosophical grammar of psychological terminologies in ordinary language and metaphysical theorizing about psychological phenomena. If we agree with his methodology and certain of his conclusions, then we may find it fruitful to consider how a later Wittgensteinian cognitive psychology might be developed. That seems to be the motivation behind this new study of Wittgenstein and Psychology by Rom Harré and Michael Tissaw. The book is subtitled by the..