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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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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 97805228802367
Aspect perception and rule‐following in Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations5
Introduction4
Frege and Prior on tense and sense3
CherylMisak, FrankRamseyA Sheer Excess of PowersOxford University Press, xxxvi + 500 pp., £25.00 hb3
Editor's note2
The problem of free will is child's play2
Grammar and analyticity: Wittgenstein and the logical positivists on logical and conceptual truth2
The subject of literature, the subject of philosophy: Plato, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard's reading of Abraham2
Wittgenstein and concept‐extension in mathematics2
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Wittgenstein on Miscalculation and the Foundations of Mathematics1
Anxiety and wonder: On being human By MariaBalaska, London, UK: Bloomsbury. 20241
The evolution of human opacity: A Wittgensteinian critique of psychology1
Rhees and the distinction between religion and science1
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Wittgenstein on string figures as mathematics: A modern ethnological approach to the limits of empiricism1
Ethics After Wittgenstein: Contemplation and CritiqueBy RichardAmesbury, HartmutvonSass (eds), Bloomsbury, 2021.1
Rather more on AI from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy1
Why avowals must be assertions1
Knowledge first, all the way down1
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Is the wrongness of murder a universal moral hinge?1
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Defending Wittgenstein1
Some concerns about the idea of basic moral certainty: A critical response to Samuel Laves1
Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough's analysis revisited1
On having control over our actions1
‘A better sort of reader’: Wittgenstein on literary reading0
The role of pragmatic considerations during mathematical derivation in the applicability of mathematics0
The death of the embodied philosopher and the life of the mind: On the literary and poetic features of Plato's Phaedo0
Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?0
Anscombe's and von Wright's non‐causalist response to Davidson's challenge0
Wittgenstein's New Way of Talking to Himself0
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
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Between nature and mind: Simone Weil's intermediaries upon consideration of Charles Taylor's concept of ‘interspace’0
The vices of naturalist neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics0
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Elements of the Philosophy of ‘Right’0
David Cockburn Wittgenstein Human Beings and Conversation (London: Anthem Press, 2022)0
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Wittgensteinian political quietism and Rawls' political liberalism0
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Reply to Sullivan: Idealism and limits0
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
Julius Kovesi and The Quartet: Another way of remaking moral philosophy0
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Cora Diamond on the concept of ethics0
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Some anecdotes about Wittgenstein0
Geometric diagrams as an effective notation0
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
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Investigative Ordinary Language Philosophy0
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Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics By RogerTeichmann, Anthem Press. 2025. pp. 2340
Wittgenstein in Cantor's paradise0
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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
Crossing pictures of ‘determination’ in Wittgenstein's remarks on rule‐following0
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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
Necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema0
Wittgenstein on mathematical facts0
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On Wittgenstein's remarks about the standard metre0
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Holistic similarities between Quine and Wittgenstein0
Wittgenstein in Swansea: Philosophy and Legacy By AlanSandry (Ed.), University of Wales Press, Cardiff. 2025. pp. xiii & 237. £19.990
Understanding Wittgenstein's positive philosophy through language‐games: Giving philosophy peace0
General truths and the danger of relativism in contextual ethics0
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Wittgenstein on logical truth and bipolarity0
Corrigendum0
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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
The disappearance of Allan Bloom0
Not a difference of opinion: Wittgenstein and Turing on contradictions in mathematics0
Education towards a reasonable humanism0
Wittgenstein, normativity and the ‘space of reasons’0
The Moral Philosophy of Iris Murdoch. By MarkHopwood, London: Routledge, 2025. x+194 pp. £155.00 (hardback). ISBN : 978‐0‐36‐781957‐60
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The Sense of Scriptural Authority0
Corrigendum to “Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work?”0
Why ‘Is’ Must Entail ‘Ought’0
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Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Philosophy as work on oneself’0
Constantine Sandis, Wittgenstein on Other Minds: Strangers in a Strange Land . London: Anthem Press. 20250
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience By Sophie Grace Chappell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 464 pp. £37.99. ISBN: 97801928580160
‘Tell them I've had a wonderful life’: Wittgenstein's final words from the perspective of the world sub specie aeterni0
The weight of Wittgenstein's standard metre0
Wittgenstein's critical Philosophy of Mathematical Practice0
Wittgenstein and set theory0
Goodness and necessity0
On the existence of moral certainties: The case of the pisa‐suaves0
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Transcendental philosophy and logic diagrams0
Wittgenstein's Liberatory Philosophy: Thinking Through His Philosophical InvestigationsBy RupertRead, New York and London: Routledge. 2021. xvii +386 pp. £104 HB, £31.19 PB0
Wittgenstein and Waismann's open texture0
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Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university0
SimoneKotva, Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of PhilosophyLondon: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 230+xvi pages0
Wittgenstein's method is simple: ‘Describe language‐games!’0
‘Logic Is Transcendental’: Content, Isomorphism and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Logic of Depiction0
Tarski's T‐schema and necessity of identity0
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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
Peter Hacker on forms of representation: A critical evaluation0
Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethics0
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.), D0
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Return of the evil genius0
Kripke and Wittgenstein on proper names0
Hertz's legacy in Tractarian metaphysics10
What is a person? Realities, constructs, illusionsBy John M. Rist, Cambridge University Press, 2019.0
Anscombe on Wittgenstein: Reminiscences of a Philosophical Friendship. By JohnBerkman and RogerTeichmann (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025. ix+235 pp. $34.99. ISBN: 978‐0‐19‐764895‐70
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters0
Moral certainty and the wrongness of killing: A non‐propositional view0
Peter Winch and the idea of immanent transcendence0
The Humane Perspective: Philosophical Reflections on Human Nature, the Search for Meaning and the Role of Religion. By JohnCottingham, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. 256 pp. $90.00 (Hardback).0
The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments0
Mercy for the Man or Martial Law for the Sailor: How genuine moral dilemmas help shape our moral commitments0
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Hadot's later Wittgenstein: A critique0
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
Extending Hinge EpistemologyEds. ConstantineSandis and DanièleMoyal‐Sharrock, Anthem Press, 2022.0
Dogtoothand Wittgenstein's builders: A future in language?0
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AI from the point of view of ordinary language0
Wittgenstein On Moral Certainty0
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Wittgenstein on Mathematics By Severin Schroeder, Routledge, 2021. xiii+238 pp.0
‘S knows that p’0
‘On the necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema’—A response to Davood Hosseini0
Against ‘Against Slagle's Reading’0
Rush Rhees on Plato and language0
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The Plague: Modern life0
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Einstein and philosophy: A new definition of 'simultaneous'0
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Scepticism and Naturalism: Essays on the Later PhilosophyMarie McGinn, Wittgenstein (Anthem Press, 2021). 198 pp, price £80.00 hb0
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The mark of the dispositional: Broad, Ramsey and Wittgenstein0
Political Authority: Contract and Critique. By PeterWinch, LynetteReid, and MichaelCampbell (eds.), London: Anthem Press, 2025. xxiii+245 pp. £80.00/$110.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐83‐999165‐30
Logic and conventions0
Other minds: ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Sceptical’ doubts0
The strange thing of which we find ourselves a part: Theodore Dreiser's virus novel0
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