Philosophical Investigations

Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Suggestions for Further Reading

Cavell, Stanley. "The Availability of Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy" in Must We Mean What We Say?. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969

———. The Claim of Reason: Wittgenstein, Skepticism, Morality, and Tragedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979

Crary, Alice, and Rupert Read, eds. The New Wittgenstein. London: Routledge, 2000

Diamond, Cora. The Realistic Spirit: Wittgenstein, Philosophy, and the Mind. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1995

Dummett, Michael. "Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics." Philosophical Review, 1959, vol. sixty-eight, pp. 324–48

Goldfarb, Warren. "I Want You To Bring me a Slab: Remarks on the Opening Sections of the Philosophical Investigations." Synthese, 1983, vol. fifty-six, pp. 265–82

Hacker, P. M. S. Insight and Illusion: Themes in the Philosophy of Wittgenstein. Bristol: Thoemmes Press, 1989

Kripke, Saul. Wittgenstein on Rules and Private Language. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1982

Wittgenstein, Ludwig. The Blue and Brown Books. New York: Harper & Row, 1960

———. On Certainty. Edited by G. E. M. Anscombe and G. H. von Wright, Translated by Denis Paul and G. E. M. Anscombe. New York: Harper & Row, 1972

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