Philosophical Investigations

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    Education towards a reasonable humanism.John Haldane - 2025 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (2):143-161.
    Education is twice over concerned with human nature, most extensively as it is presupposed in the pursuit of diverse aims, and more specifically, as understanding it and applying such understanding are themselves made objects of study and teaching. The latter was a principal concern of ancient, renaissance and enlightenment humanists. These and others who focussed on the human condition have tended to arrive at one of the three attitudes: the celebratory, the gloomy and the condemnatory. Recent decades have seen tyrannies, (...)
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    Wittgenstein's method is simple: ‘Describe language‐games!’.Doug Hardman - 2025 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (2):222-240.
    There are many interpretations of what Wittgenstein's later approach entails and what its motivations are. Yet, despite extensive exegesis significantly deepening our understanding, his later approach—howsoever one interprets it—remains at best marginal and at worst ignored in contemporary philosophy. This is especially puzzling given the general consensus that Wittgenstein is a very influential philosopher. I suggest a change in approach. Rather than focussing on the potential differences to be found in Wittgenstein's work, in this essay I propose that Wittgenstein's later (...)
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    ‘Tell them I've had a wonderful life’: Wittgenstein's final words from the perspective of the world sub specie aeterni.Ryan Manhire - 2025 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (2):162-183.
    Some scholars suggest a puzzle presents itself in Ludwig Wittgenstein's final words in the mismatch between what Norman Malcolm describes as a ‘fiercely unhappy’ life and Wittgenstein's expression of that life as ‘wonderful’. Ronald L. Hall attempts to overcome the apparent puzzle by retranslating Wittgenstein's final words into an expression of an awakening to the wonder inherent in reality. Beth Savickey argues that Hall's approach is a philosophical abstraction that diminishes the significance of friendship in Wittgenstein's life and that these (...)
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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: 978‐1‐5095‐5585‐7 (pb). [REVIEW]Salla Aldrin Salskov & Ryan Manhire - 2025 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (2):241-246.
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    Goodness and necessity.Philip Strammer - 2025 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (2):184-200.
    This paper examines how we are to understand the goodness of neighbourly love, using the example of the parable of the Good Samaritan. Engaging with the philosophical discussion concerning the parable's moral significance that ensued in the wake of Peter Winch's 1987 paper ‘Who is my Neighbour?’, the paper argues that framing the goodness of the Samaritan in terms of a perceived necessity—as Winch and others do—runs the risk of simplifying and thus distorting it. The proposed alternative claims that goodness (...)
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    Julius Kovesi and The Quartet: Another way of remaking moral philosophy.Alan Tapper - 2025 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (2):201-221.
    This article situates the Australian moral philosopher Julius Kovesi (1930–1989) in the context of the ‘Quartet’ of women philosophers—Iris Murdoch, Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot and Mary Midgley—with whom he was associated in various ways. His connections with the Quartet have not been documented previously, but they are not minor or incidental. Foot herself credits him with being one of the ‘members of a small band of guerrillas fighting the prevailing orthodoxy of anti‐naturalist emotivism and prescriptivism in ethics, and challenging the (...)
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    Rush Rhees on Plato and language.Ieuan Williams - 2025 - Philosophical Investigations 48 (2):139-142.
    Rush Rhees wrote extensively on Plato and on Greek philosophy in general. In this set of notes written during the late nineteen sixties, Rhees develops a number of themes concerning language, measning and life deriving from Plato's philosphy.
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