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 2021-11-01 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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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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Wittgenstein and concept‐extension in mathematics2
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
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
Hadot's later Wittgenstein: A critique0
Logic and conventions0
Elements of the Philosophy of ‘Right’0
Peter Winch and the idea of immanent transcendence0
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience By Sophie Grace Chappell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 464 pp. £37.99. ISBN: 97801928580160
AndrewLugg, Wittgenstein's Remarks on ColourLondon: Anthem Press, 2021. 206 pp. £80.00. ISBN 97817852767430
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Other minds: ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Sceptical’ doubts0
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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
‘On the necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema’—A response to Davood Hosseini0
The death of the embodied philosopher and the life of the mind: On the literary and poetic features of Plato's Phaedo0
Goodness and necessity0
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The Plague: Modern life0
MichaelMcGhee, Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism and Religion (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). x + 199, £98. hb0
Geometric diagrams as an effective notation0
The concept of relation and the explanation of the phenomenon of Entanglement0
The weight of Wittgenstein's standard metre0
Scepticism and Naturalism: Essays on the Later PhilosophyMarie McGinn, Wittgenstein (Anthem Press, 2021). 198 pp, price £80.00 hb0
Wittgensteinian political quietism and Rawls' political liberalism0
Against ‘Against Slagle's Reading’0
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On the existence of moral certainties: The case of the pisa‐suaves0
Education towards a reasonable humanism0
Wittgenstein's method is simple: ‘Describe language‐games!’0
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‘S knows that p’0
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters0
A Remorseful Criminal: Searching for Guilt in Aristotle0
‘Tell them I've had a wonderful life’: Wittgenstein's final words from the perspective of the world sub specie aeterni0
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Rhees and the distinction between religion and science0
The strange thing of which we find ourselves a part: Theodore Dreiser's virus novel0
Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university0
Dogtoothand Wittgenstein's builders: A future in language?0
Ethics After Wittgenstein: Contemplation and CritiqueBy RichardAmesbury, HartmutvonSass (eds), Bloomsbury, 2021.0
Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?0
SimoneKotva, Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of PhilosophyLondon: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 230+xvi pages0
Investigating “man’s relation to reality”: Peter Winch, the vanishing shed and metaphysics after Wittgenstein0
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
Corrigendum0
The First Emperor: Solipsism, Power and the State☆0
Wittgenstein and Waismann's open texture0
The vices of naturalist neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics0
Hope among the virtues: The challenge of delineating a virtue of hope0
Corrigendum to “Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work?”0
On Wittgenstein's remarks about the standard metre0
Wittgenstein on mathematical facts0
Julius Kovesi and The Quartet: Another way of remaking moral philosophy0
‘It's all there in the language’—a conversation with Garrett Stewart0
Why ‘Is’ Must Entail ‘Ought’0
‘A better sort of reader’: Wittgenstein on literary reading0
Some anecdotes about Wittgenstein0
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General truths and the danger of relativism in contextual ethics0
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Wittgenstein in Swansea: Philosophy and Legacy By AlanSandry (Ed.), University of Wales Press, Cardiff. 2025. pp. xiii & 237. £19.990
Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I: Mind and Language By Helliwell, A. C., Rossi, A., & Ball, B. (Eds.), Anthem Press. 2024. Review0
Extending Hinge EpistemologyEds. ConstantineSandis and DanièleMoyal‐Sharrock, Anthem Press, 2022.0
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Wittgenstein on logical truth and bipolarity0
Reply to Sullivan: Idealism and limits0
Rush Rhees on Plato and language0
Wittgenstein on mathematics0
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Manufacturing the placebo effect0
Investigative Ordinary Language Philosophy0
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
Wittgenstein's New Way of Talking to Himself0
Hertz's legacy in Tractarian metaphysics10
Knowledge of Oneself and of Others: Aquinas, Wittgenstein and Rembrandt☆0
Non‐Propositional Regulation☆0
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
David Cockburn Wittgenstein Human Beings and Conversation (London: Anthem Press, 2022)0
Language, Mind and Value By SeverinSchroeder, London: Anthem. 20240
Holistic similarities between Quine and Wittgenstein0
Rather more on AI from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy0
Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethics0
The Sense of Scriptural Authority0
PeterWinch, Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding. MichaelCampbell and SarahTropper (eds) (London: Anthem Press, 2020). pp 145, price £84.990
Against Slagle’s Reading of Eliminative Materialism on Self‐Defeating0
Kripke and Wittgenstein on proper names0
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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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
The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments0
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The disappearance of Allan Bloom0
Anscombe's and von Wright's non‐causalist response to Davidson's challenge0
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Introduction0
Wittgenstein's Account of Music and its Comparison to Language: Understanding, Experience and Rules0
Rule‐Following and Objective Spirit0
Mercy for the Man or Martial Law for the Sailor: How genuine moral dilemmas help shape our moral commitments0
Tarski's T‐schema and necessity of identity0
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Wittgenstein's critical Philosophy of Mathematical Practice0
Peter Hacker on forms of representation: A critical evaluation0
Wittgenstein and set theory0
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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
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Return of the evil genius0
Wittgenstein on Mathematics By Severin Schroeder, Routledge, 2021. xiii+238 pp.0
What is a person? Realities, constructs, illusionsBy John M. Rist, Cambridge University Press, 2019.0
Wittgenstein in Cantor's paradise0
Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics By RogerTeichmann, Anthem Press. 2025. pp. 2340
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Wittgenstein’s 1929–30 inquiries into probability0
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Necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema0
Not a difference of opinion: Wittgenstein and Turing on contradictions in mathematics0
Transcendental philosophy and logic diagrams0
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Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Philosophy as work on oneself’0
Conclusion0
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The role of pragmatic considerations during mathematical derivation in the applicability of mathematics0
Review of James C. Klagge, Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry, the MIT Press, 2021, Xii + 258 Pp.0
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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
A Response to Dehnel's ‘Defending Wittgenstein’0
Defending Wittgenstein0
Understanding Wittgenstein's positive philosophy through language‐games: Giving philosophy peace0
Cora Diamond on the concept of ethics0
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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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Crossing pictures of ‘determination’ in Wittgenstein's remarks on rule‐following0
Addendum to ‘Elements of the Philosophy of “Right”’0
Defending Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Cantor from Putnam0
Poetic Perlocutions: Poetry after Cavell after Austin0
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