Philosophical Investigations

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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Aspect perception and rule‐following in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations7
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Justice and hope: Essays, lectures and other writings By RaimondGaita, ed. ScottStephens, Melbourne, Vic.: Melbourne University Press. 2023. xvii +582 pp. £30. ISBN 97805228802366
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Wittgenstein and concept‐extension in mathematics2
CherylMisak, FrankRamseyA Sheer Excess of PowersOxford University Press, xxxvi + 500 pp., £25.00 hb2
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Frege and Prior on tense and sense2
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On having control over our actions1
Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough's analysis revisited1
Wittgenstein on string figures as mathematics: A modern ethnological approach to the limits of empiricism1
Some concerns about the idea of basic moral certainty: A critical response to Samuel Laves1
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Grammar and analyticity: Wittgenstein and the logical positivists on logical and conceptual truth1
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
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Why avowals must be assertions1
Knowledge first, all the way down1
Editor's note1
The subject of literature, the subject of philosophy: Plato, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard's reading of Abraham1
Wittgenstein on Miscalculation and the Foundations of Mathematics1
Is the wrongness of murder a universal moral hinge?1
Anxiety and wonder: On being human By MariaBalaska, London, UK: Bloomsbury. 20241
MichaelWeston, Recovering the Mystery: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Cooper, Dao and Zen (London: Epiphanies Press, 2021). 181, price £7.99.1
Rule‐Following and Objective Spirit0
Holistic similarities between Quine and Wittgenstein0
Tarski's T‐schema and necessity of identity0
Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethics0
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PeterWinch, Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding. MichaelCampbell and SarahTropper (eds) (London: Anthem Press, 2020). pp 145, price £84.990
Peter Hacker on forms of representation: A critical evaluation0
Kripke and Wittgenstein on proper names0
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
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Return of the evil genius0
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
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What is a person? Realities, constructs, illusionsBy John M. Rist, Cambridge University Press, 2019.0
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Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics By RogerTeichmann, Anthem Press. 2025. pp. 2340
The disappearance of Allan Bloom0
Wittgenstein on Mathematics By Severin Schroeder, Routledge, 2021. xiii+238 pp.0
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Mercy for the Man or Martial Law for the Sailor: How genuine moral dilemmas help shape our moral commitments0
Not a difference of opinion: Wittgenstein and Turing on contradictions in mathematics0
Wittgenstein's Account of Music and its Comparison to Language: Understanding, Experience and Rules0
Wittgenstein’s 1929–30 inquiries into probability0
Wittgenstein's critical Philosophy of Mathematical Practice0
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Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Philosophy as work on oneself’0
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Wittgenstein and set theory0
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
Review of James C. Klagge, Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry, the MIT Press, 2021, Xii + 258 Pp.0
Wittgenstein in Cantor's paradise0
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Cora Diamond on the concept of ethics0
Defending Wittgenstein0
Necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema0
Transcendental philosophy and logic diagrams0
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Defending Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Cantor from Putnam0
Crossing pictures of ‘determination’ in Wittgenstein's remarks on rule‐following0
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Logic and conventions0
The role of pragmatic considerations during mathematical derivation in the applicability of mathematics0
Peter Winch and the idea of immanent transcendence0
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AndrewLugg, Wittgenstein's Remarks on ColourLondon: Anthem Press, 2021. 206 pp. £80.00. ISBN 97817852767430
A Response to Dehnel's ‘Defending Wittgenstein’0
Other minds: ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Sceptical’ doubts0
Understanding Wittgenstein's positive philosophy through language‐games: Giving philosophy peace0
A declaration of duties towards humankind: A critical companion to Simone Weil's The Need for Roots By Eric O.Springsted, Ronald K. L.Collins, (Eds.), Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press. 2024.0
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The death of the embodied philosopher and the life of the mind: On the literary and poetic features of Plato's Phaedo0
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
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Poetic Perlocutions: Poetry after Cavell after Austin0
MichaelMcGhee, Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism and Religion (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). x + 199, £98. hb0
Addendum to ‘Elements of the Philosophy of “Right”’0
Goodness and necessity0
The weight of Wittgenstein's standard metre0
Elements of the Philosophy of ‘Right’0
Wittgensteinian political quietism and Rawls' political liberalism0
Hadot's later Wittgenstein: A critique0
The concept of relation and the explanation of the phenomenon of Entanglement0
On the existence of moral certainties: The case of the pisa‐suaves0
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Wittgenstein's method is simple: ‘Describe language‐games!’0
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience By Sophie Grace Chappell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 464 pp. £37.99. ISBN: 97801928580160
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‘On the necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema’—A response to Davood Hosseini0
A Remorseful Criminal: Searching for Guilt in Aristotle0
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‘Tell them I've had a wonderful life’: Wittgenstein's final words from the perspective of the world sub specie aeterni0
‘S knows that p’0
The Plague: Modern life0
Geometric diagrams as an effective notation0
Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university0
Rhees and the distinction between religion and science0
Scepticism and Naturalism: Essays on the Later PhilosophyMarie McGinn, Wittgenstein (Anthem Press, 2021). 198 pp, price £80.00 hb0
Against ‘Against Slagle's Reading’0
SimoneKotva, Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of PhilosophyLondon: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 230+xvi pages0
Ethics After Wittgenstein: Contemplation and CritiqueBy RichardAmesbury, HartmutvonSass (eds), Bloomsbury, 2021.0
Education towards a reasonable humanism0
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The First Emperor: Solipsism, Power and the State☆0
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
Hope among the virtues: The challenge of delineating a virtue of hope0
Wittgenstein and Waismann's open texture0
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters0
Wittgenstein on mathematical facts0
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‘It's all there in the language’—a conversation with Garrett Stewart0
The strange thing of which we find ourselves a part: Theodore Dreiser's virus novel0
‘A better sort of reader’: Wittgenstein on literary reading0
Dogtoothand Wittgenstein's builders: A future in language?0
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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?0
General truths and the danger of relativism in contextual ethics0
Investigating “man’s relation to reality”: Peter Winch, the vanishing shed and metaphysics after Wittgenstein0
Wittgenstein in Swansea: Philosophy and Legacy By AlanSandry (Ed.), University of Wales Press, Cardiff. 2025. pp. xiii & 237. £19.990
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Extending Hinge EpistemologyEds. ConstantineSandis and DanièleMoyal‐Sharrock, Anthem Press, 2022.0
Corrigendum to “Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work?”0
Wittgenstein on logical truth and bipolarity0
The vices of naturalist neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics0
Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I: Mind and Language By Helliwell, A. C., Rossi, A., & Ball, B. (Eds.), Anthem Press. 2024. Review0
Wittgenstein on mathematics0
Julius Kovesi and The Quartet: Another way of remaking moral philosophy0
Manufacturing the placebo effect0
On Wittgenstein's remarks about the standard metre0
Rush Rhees on Plato and language0
Some anecdotes about Wittgenstein0
Hertz's legacy in Tractarian metaphysics10
Why ‘Is’ Must Entail ‘Ought’0
AI from the point of view of ordinary language0
Ordinary Language Philosophy as an Extension of Ideal Language Philosophy. Comparing the Methods of the Later Wittgenstein and P.F. Strawson0
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Language, Mind and Value By SeverinSchroeder, London: Anthem. 20240
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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Reply to Sullivan: Idealism and limits0
The Sense of Scriptural Authority0
Rather more on AI from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy0
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Investigative Ordinary Language Philosophy0
Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Philosophical InvestigationsBy RupertRead, New York and London: Routledge. 2021. xvii +386 pp. £104 HB, £31.19 PB0
Against Slagle’s Reading of Eliminative Materialism on Self‐Defeating0
Knowledge of Oneself and of Others: Aquinas, Wittgenstein and Rembrandt☆0
The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments0
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Wittgenstein's New Way of Talking to Himself0
Anscombe's and von Wright's non‐causalist response to Davidson's challenge0
Non‐Propositional Regulation☆0
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David Cockburn Wittgenstein Human Beings and Conversation (London: Anthem Press, 2022)0
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