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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
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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
Frege and Prior on tense and sense2
Editor's note2
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Wittgenstein and concept‐extension in mathematics2
Introduction2
CherylMisak, FrankRamseyA Sheer Excess of PowersOxford University Press, xxxvi + 500 pp., £25.00 hb2
MichaelWeston, Recovering the Mystery: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, Cooper, Dao and Zen (London: Epiphanies Press, 2021). 181, price £7.99.2
Rather more on AI from the point of view of ordinary language philosophy1
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
Knowledge first, all the way down1
Why avowals must be assertions1
Ethics After Wittgenstein: Contemplation and CritiqueBy RichardAmesbury, HartmutvonSass (eds), Bloomsbury, 2021.1
Family resemblance and the problem of universals: Bambrough's analysis revisited1
The subject of literature, the subject of philosophy: Plato, Wittgenstein, and Kierkegaard's reading of Abraham1
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Is the wrongness of murder a universal moral hinge?1
Anxiety and wonder: On being human By MariaBalaska, London, UK: Bloomsbury. 20241
Defending Wittgenstein1
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On having control over our actions1
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
Elements of the Philosophy of ‘Right’0
Crossing pictures of ‘determination’ in Wittgenstein's remarks on rule‐following0
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Manufacturing the placebo effect0
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Tarski's T‐schema and necessity of identity0
Epiphanies: An Ethics of Experience By Sophie Grace Chappell, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. 464 pp. £37.99. ISBN: 97801928580160
Logic and conventions0
Peter Hacker on forms of representation: A critical evaluation0
Reply to Sullivan: Idealism and limits0
AndrewLugg, Wittgenstein's Remarks on ColourLondon: Anthem Press, 2021. 206 pp. £80.00. ISBN 97817852767430
‘On the necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema’—A response to Davood Hosseini0
Geometric diagrams as an effective notation0
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
The Plague: Modern life0
Return of the evil genius0
Against ‘Against Slagle's Reading’0
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Not a difference of opinion: Wittgenstein and Turing on contradictions in mathematics0
Scepticism and Naturalism: Essays on the Later PhilosophyMarie McGinn, Wittgenstein (Anthem Press, 2021). 198 pp, price £80.00 hb0
What is a person? Realities, constructs, illusionsBy John M. Rist, Cambridge University Press, 2019.0
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Wittgenstein on Mathematics By Severin Schroeder, Routledge, 2021. xiii+238 pp.0
The evolution of human opacity: A Wittgensteinian critique of psychology0
The strange thing of which we find ourselves a part: Theodore Dreiser's virus novel0
Wittgenstein, normativity and the ‘space of reasons’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
Review of James C. Klagge, Wittgenstein's Artillery: Philosophy as Poetry, the MIT Press, 2021, Xii + 258 Pp.0
David Cockburn Wittgenstein Human Beings and Conversation (London: Anthem Press, 2022)0
Non‐Propositional Regulation☆0
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Simone Weil and Ludwig Wittgenstein: ‘Philosophy as work on oneself’0
Schlick and Wittgenstein on games and ethics0
Wittgenstein's New Way of Talking to Himself0
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
PeterWinch, Spinoza on Ethics and Understanding. MichaelCampbell and SarahTropper (eds) (London: Anthem Press, 2020). pp 145, price £84.990
Wittgenstein on mathematics0
Kripke and Wittgenstein on proper names0
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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 Sense of Scriptural Authority0
Education towards a reasonable humanism0
Wittgenstein and Waismann's open texture0
The disappearance of Allan Bloom0
The First Emperor: Solipsism, Power and the State☆0
Mercy for the Man or Martial Law for the Sailor: How genuine moral dilemmas help shape our moral commitments0
Peter Winch and the idea of immanent transcendence0
On Wittgenstein's remarks about the standard metre0
Hope among the virtues: The challenge of delineating a virtue of hope0
Other minds: ‘Ordinary’ and ‘Sceptical’ doubts0
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Wittgenstein on mathematical facts0
Some anecdotes about Wittgenstein0
The death of the embodied philosopher and the life of the mind: On the literary and poetic features of Plato's Phaedo0
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‘A better sort of reader’: Wittgenstein on literary reading0
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MichaelMcGhee, Spirituality for the Godless: Buddhism, Humanism and Religion (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2021). x + 199, £98. hb0
Investigative Ordinary Language Philosophy0
Goodness and necessity0
SimoneKotva, Effort and Grace: On the Spiritual Exercise of PhilosophyLondon: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 230+xvi pages0
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Knowledge of Oneself and of Others: Aquinas, Wittgenstein and Rembrandt☆0
The concept of relation and the explanation of the phenomenon of Entanglement0
Some concerns about the idea of basic moral certainty: A critical response to Samuel Laves0
Hertz's legacy in Tractarian metaphysics10
Wittgensteinian political quietism and Rawls' political liberalism0
Wittgenstein’s 1929–30 inquiries into probability0
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General truths and the danger of relativism in contextual ethics0
‘Tell them I've had a wonderful life’: Wittgenstein's final words from the perspective of the world sub specie aeterni0
Holistic similarities between Quine and Wittgenstein0
On the existence of moral certainties: The case of the pisa‐suaves0
Understanding Wittgenstein's positive philosophy through language‐games: Giving philosophy peace0
The role of pragmatic considerations during mathematical derivation in the applicability of mathematics0
Reconsidering Martin Heidegger on the modern university0
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The weight of Wittgenstein's standard metre0
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
Corrigendum to “Theolologicophilolological Investigations: Is Wittgenstein's Tractatus a Modernist Work?”0
Logos and Life: Essays on Mind, Action, Language and Ethics By RogerTeichmann, Anthem Press. 2025. pp. 2340
Addendum to ‘Elements of the Philosophy of “Right”’0
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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The mark of the dispositional: Broad, Ramsey and Wittgenstein0
Hadot's later Wittgenstein: A critique0
The ontological argument as a practice of Metaphilosophy: Two Wittgensteinian developments0
Julius Kovesi and The Quartet: Another way of remaking moral philosophy0
‘It's all there in the language’—a conversation with Garrett Stewart0
Wittgenstein's Account of Music and its Comparison to Language: Understanding, Experience and Rules0
Anscombe's and von Wright's non‐causalist response to Davidson's challenge0
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Rule‐Following and Objective Spirit0
Wittgenstein's critical Philosophy of Mathematical Practice0
Wittgenstein in Swansea: Philosophy and Legacy By AlanSandry (Ed.), University of Wales Press, Cardiff. 2025. pp. xiii & 237. £19.990
Wittgenstein and set theory0
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Einstein and philosophy: A new definition of 'simultaneous'0
Wittgenstein in Cantor's paradise0
Wittgenstein on logical truth and bipolarity0
Transcendental philosophy and logic diagrams0
Wittgenstein and Artificial Intelligence, Volume I: Mind and Language By Helliwell, A. C., Rossi, A., & Ball, B. (Eds.), Anthem Press. 2024. Review0
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
Necessity of identity and Tarski's T‐schema0
Metaphysics as a Guide to Morals in Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters0
Rush Rhees on Plato and language0
Rhees and the distinction between religion and science0
Why ‘Is’ Must Entail ‘Ought’0
Wittgenstein's method is simple: ‘Describe language‐games!’0
AI from the point of view of ordinary language0
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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Language, Mind and Value By SeverinSchroeder, London: Anthem. 20240
Dogtoothand Wittgenstein's builders: A future in language?0
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Was Descartes responsible for the problem of other minds?0
Cora Diamond on the concept of ethics0
Investigating “man’s relation to reality”: Peter Winch, the vanishing shed and metaphysics after Wittgenstein0
‘S knows that p’0
Corrigendum0
A Response to Dehnel's ‘Defending Wittgenstein’0
Extending Hinge EpistemologyEds. ConstantineSandis and DanièleMoyal‐Sharrock, Anthem Press, 2022.0
The vices of naturalist neo‐Aristotelian virtue ethics0
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