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This book offers fresh perspectives about the religious convictions and faith of “the Mother of Feminism,” many of which have been ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented in Wollstonecraftian scholarship.

This book sets out to adjudicate the scholarly controversy surrounding Wittgenstein’s May–June 1913 critique of Russell’s multiple-relation theory of judgement. It also aims to familiarize readers with the historical events, textual evidence, letters, working notes and diagrams which are crucial to a correct appreciation of Wittgenstein’s criticisms.

The essays in Wittgenstein, Scepticism and Naturalism cover the later Wittgenstein’s thought on scepticism about the external world; scepticism about other minds; knowledge and belief; meaning and rule-following; and the nature of psychological concepts. Focusing on topics in the later philosophy, the essays provide a distinctive understanding of the nature of philosophical development of Wittgenstein’s thought from the early to the later work.

These papers develop, in a critical spirit, themes in Wittgenstein’s treatment of mind and language. The approach is distinctive in giving central place to the individual’s relations with others in a way that involves detailed attention to the human bodily form and to conversation, and a significant ethical dimension.

This volume brings together several papers on hinge epistemology written by Annalisa Coliva and published after her influential monographs Moore and Wittgenstein. Scepticism, Certainty and Common Sense (2010); Extended Rationality. A Hinge Epistemology (2015). By mixing together Wittgenstein scholarship and systematic philosophy, they illuminate the significance of hinge epistemology for current debates on skepticism and relativism and beyond.

This book brings together Constantine Sandis’s essays on Wittgenstein’s approach to understanding others.

Vinten looks at the relationship between Wittgenstein’s philosophy and the social sciences as well as at the ideological implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and applications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy to problems in social science. He examines and assesses the work of thinkers like Richard Rorty, Perry Anderson, and Chantal Mouffe.

This work is guided by the idea that Wittgenstein’s thought opens the door to a more profound break with the philosophical tradition than has been generally recognized. It brings this insight to bear on some basic problems of philosophy. 

This volume makes an incisive contribution to the field of philosophy of culture in outlining the potential of Wittgenstein’s philosophy for the study of popular culture, focusing on concrete examples: from detective fiction and comics, to TV series and football fandom.

Wittgenstein and Modernist Fiction: The Language of Acknowledgment shows how works of twentieth-century literature and philosophy together examine language’s capacity to acknowledge the inner lives of marginalized figures.

Wittgenstein and AI (Volume II): Value and Governance. This is the second of two edited collections, exploring Wittgensteinian themes in AI. The issues covered by the various chapters of this volume range over a number of topics, with a specific focus on ethics, governance, aesthetics and the law.