Personal Aspects ALBERTO EMILIANI Und hier zeigt die zwar gemeine, aber betrügliche Voraus- setzung, der absoluten Realität der Erscheinungen, sogleich ihren nachteiligen Einfluß, die Vernunft zu verwirren. (Kant, Kr.R.Vern. A533, B561) (And here the common but deceitful assumption of the absolute reality of phenomena shows its harmful influence in bewildering our reason.) Abstract The starting point of this paper is in some insights and diffi- culties concerning the mind-body problem in von Wright's last writings. I discuss the distinction between personal and impersonal aspects. What is described by focussing on a per- sonal aspect – someone being in pain, one raising one's arm – can be impersonally described in terms of physical processes. However a personal aspect, which is as real as any physical one, only becomes visible if we perform a basic turn from the position of an observer of processes to the position of a par- ticipant that is actively engaged with our environment, in ways and forms that we share with others. Therefore it is no mere outcome of a conceptualization of behaviour. On the other hand, no further ingredients have to be injected into impersonal processes to turn them into (intentional) move- ment or pain. This is a wide and many-sided topic, whose implications are profound and radical. Several of such implications are not even mentioned in this paper. The overall perspective I am outlining requires a major overturning motion – the reversal