Philosophical Investigations

Papers
(The median citation count of Philosophical Investigations is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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Moral Testimony, Knowledge and Understanding6
Justice and hope: Essays, lectures and other writings By RaimondGaita, ed. ScottStephens, Melbourne, Vic.: Melbourne University Press. 2023. xvii +582 pp. £30. ISBN 97805228802366
Frege and Prior on tense and sense5
Introduction4
CherylMisak, FrankRamseyA Sheer Excess of PowersOxford University Press, xxxvi + 500 pp., £25.00 hb2
Wittgenstein and concept‐extension in mathematics2
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On having control over our actions1
Is the wrongness of murder a universal moral hinge?1
Why avowals must be assertions1
Knowledge first, all the way down1
MichaelWeston, Recovering the Mystery: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Cooper, Dao and Zen (London: Epiphanies Press, 2021). 181, price £7.99.1
On occasion we go after an innocent: A review of MariaBalaska (ed), Cora Diamond on Ethics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021). xii + 267, price £89.99.1
Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough's analysis revisited1
Anxiety and wonder: On being human By MariaBalaska, London, UK: Bloomsbury. 20241
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The subject of literature, the subject of philosophy: Plato, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard's reading of Abraham1
Wittgenstein on Miscalculation and the Foundations of Mathematics1
Wittgenstein on string figures as mathematics: A modern ethnological approach to the limits of empiricism1
Against Slagle’s Reading of Eliminative Materialism on Self‐Defeating1
Grammar and analyticity: Wittgenstein and the logical positivists on logical and conceptual truth1
AI from the point of view of ordinary language0
Rhees and the distinction between religion and science0
Dogtoothand Wittgenstein's builders: A future in language?0
Addendum to ‘Elements of the Philosophy of “Right”’0
The First Emperor: Solipsism, Power and the State☆0
Ethics After Wittgenstein: Contemplation and CritiqueBy RichardAmesbury, HartmutvonSass (eds), Bloomsbury, 2021.0
PeterWinch, Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding. MichaelCampbell and SarahTropper (eds) (London: Anthem Press, 2020). pp 145, price £84.990
Critical Notice: Iain McGilchrist, The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World (Perspectiva, 2021). 2 volumes, 1500 pages, no price.0
General truths and the danger of relativism in contextual ethics0
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A Response to Dehnel's ‘Defending Wittgenstein’0
Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethics0
What is a person? Realities, constructs, illusionsBy John M. Rist, Cambridge University Press, 2019.0
Necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema0
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Logic and conventions0
The death of the embodied philosopher and the life of the mind: On the literary and poetic features of Plato's Phaedo0
Wittgenstein in Cantor's paradise0
Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?0
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The Plague: Modern life0
Education towards a reasonable humanism0
Defending Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Cantor from Putnam0
Peter Winch and the idea of immanent transcendence0
‘On the necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema’—A response to Davood Hosseini0
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‘A better sort of reader’: Wittgenstein on literary reading0
Introduction0
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Rush Rhees on Plato and language0
Wittgenstein on logical truth and bipolarity0
Against ‘Against Slagle's Reading’0
Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Philosophical InvestigationsBy RupertRead, New York and London: Routledge. 2021. xvii +386 pp. £104 HB, £31.19 PB0
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AndrewLugg, Wittgenstein's Remarks on ColourLondon: Anthem Press, 2021. 206 pp. £80.00. ISBN 97817852767430
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Geometric diagrams as an effective notation0
‘Tell them I've had a wonderful life’: Wittgenstein's final words from the perspective of the world sub specie aeterni0
On the existence of moral certainties: The case of the pisa‐suaves0
Hertz's legacy in Tractarian metaphysics10
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Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university0
Tractatus in context: The essential background for appreciating Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico‐Philosophicus By James C.Klagge, Routledge. 2022. xiii +408 pp. hb £135.00/pb £39.99. ISBN0
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Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters0
The disappearance of Allan Bloom0
The origin of the fourfold (Geviert). Heidegger's concept of world in his later philosophy and Plato's concept of kosmos in the Gorgias (507e–508a)0
Some concerns about the idea of basic moral certainty: A critical response to Samuel Laves0
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Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Philosophy as work on oneself’0
Investigating “man’s relation to reality”: Peter Winch, the vanishing shed and metaphysics after Wittgenstein0
Anne‐Marie SøndergaardChristensen, Moral Philosophy and Moral Life (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021). pp. x + 226. Hardback (ISBN 978‐0‐19‐886669‐5) price $70.000
Morality in Disguise. A Response to Laves0
Crossing pictures of ‘determination’ in Wittgenstein's remarks on rule‐following0
Ginsborg’s Reading of Wittgenstein on Rules and Normativity0
On Wittgenstein's remarks about the standard metre0
Reverence, pilgrimage and tourismWittgenstein in Swansea: Philosophy and Legacy By AlanSandry (Ed.), University of Wales Press, Cardiff. 2025. pp. xiii & 237. £19.990
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Peter Hacker on forms of representation: A critical evaluation0
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Transcendental philosophy and logic diagrams0
Rule‐Following and Objective Spirit0
Other minds: ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Sceptical’ doubts0
Wittgenstein's method is simple: ‘Describe language‐games!’0
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Manufacturing the placebo effect0
Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics By RogerTeichmann, Anthem Press. 2025. pp. 2340
Wittgenstein's critical Philosophy of Mathematical Practice0
Reply to Sullivan: Idealism and limits0
Goodness and necessity0
Not a difference of opinion: Wittgenstein and Turing on contradictions in mathematics0
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The concept of relation and the explanation of the phenomenon of Entanglement0
The weight of Wittgenstein's standard metre0
Tarski's T‐schema and necessity of identity0
Julius Kovesi and The Quartet: Another way of remaking moral philosophy0
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Wittgenstein’s 1929–30 inquiries into probability0
Ordinary Language Philosophy as an Extension of Ideal Language Philosophy. Comparing the Methods of the Later Wittgenstein and P.F. Strawson0
David Cockburn Wittgenstein Human Beings and Conversation (London: Anthem Press, 2022)0
Corrigendum to “Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work?”0
Language, Mind and Value By SeverinSchroeder, London: Anthem. 20240
‘S knows that p’0
Non‐Propositional Regulation☆0
Wittgenstein's Account of Music and its Comparison to Language: Understanding, Experience and Rules0
Extending Hinge EpistemologyEds. ConstantineSandis and DanièleMoyal‐Sharrock, Anthem Press, 2022.0
Review of James C. Klagge, Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry, the MIT Press, 2021, Xii + 258 Pp.0
The role of pragmatic considerations during mathematical derivation in the applicability of mathematics0
The vices of naturalist neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics0
Real Gender: A Cis Defence of Trans Realities By DanièleMoyal‐Sharrock, ConstantineSandis, Cambridge: Polity. 2024. pp. xv+269. £17.99 (paperback). ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐5095‐5584‐0, ISBN‐13: 978‐1‐5095‐55850
Defending Wittgenstein0
Gavin Kitching, Capitalism and Democracy in the 21st Century: A Global Future Beyond Nationalism (London: Routledge, 2020)☆0
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A Remorseful Criminal: Searching for Guilt in Aristotle0
SimoneKotva, Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of PhilosophyLondon: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 230+xvi pages0
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The strange thing of which we find ourselves a part: Theodore Dreiser's virus novel0
MichaelMcGhee, Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism and Religion (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). x + 199, £98. hb0
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Understanding Wittgenstein's positive philosophy through language‐games: Giving philosophy peace0
Wittgenstein on mathematical facts0
Return of the evil genius0
Scepticism and Naturalism: Essays on the Later PhilosophyMarie McGinn, Wittgenstein (Anthem Press, 2021). 198 pp, price £80.00 hb0
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience By Sophie Grace Chappell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 464 pp. £37.99. ISBN: 97801928580160
Anscombe's and von Wright's non‐causalist response to Davidson's challenge0
Malcolm on Memory0
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Hope among the virtues: The challenge of delineating a virtue of hope0
‘It's all there in the language’—a conversation with Garrett Stewart0
Eric O.Springsted, Simone Weil for the Twenty‐First Century (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press; 2021), xxi + 264 pages, hb £80.00, pb £26.99.0
Why ‘Is’ Must Entail ‘Ought’0
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The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments0
Wittgenstein and Waismann's open texture0
Some anecdotes about Wittgenstein0
Wittgenstein and set theory0
Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I: Mind and Language By Helliwell, A. C., Rossi, A., & Ball, B. (Eds.), Anthem Press. 2024. Review0
The Sense of Scriptural Authority0
Knowledge of Oneself and of Others: Aquinas, Wittgenstein and Rembrandt☆0
Wittgenstein on Mathematics By Severin Schroeder, Routledge, 2021. xiii+238 pp.0
Wittgenstein on mathematics0
Wittgensteinian political quietism and Rawls' political liberalism0
Elements of the Philosophy of ‘Right’0
Investigative Ordinary Language Philosophy0
Cora Diamond on the concept of ethics0
Faith and Philosophy: Richard Swinburne and the Analytic Philosophy of Religion – An Interview0
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Holistic similarities between Quine and Wittgenstein0
The Wartime Quartet—Three years on The Women Are Up To Something: How Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Iris Murdoch Revolutionized Ethics By Benjamin J. B.Lipscomb, Oxford Universi0
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Poetic Perlocutions: Poetry after Cavell after Austin0
Wittgenstein's New Way of Talking to Himself0
Hadot's later Wittgenstein: A critique0
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