Wittgensteinian ethics

References and further reading

	Johnston, P. (1989) Wittgenstein and Moral Philosophy, London: Routledge. (Monograph providing useful orientation and guide to sources.)
	Lovibond, S. (1983) Realism and Imagination in Ethics, Oxford: Blackwell. (Examines the relation of the later Wittgenstein to a possible ‘moral realism’ emerging from truth-conditional semantics.)
	McDowell, J. (1979) ‘Virtue and Reason’, Monist 62: 331–350. (Connects Aristotle’s ethics with Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations.)
	McDowell, J. (1981) ‘Non-cognitivism and rule-following’, in S. Holtzman and C. Leich (eds) Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (A Wittgensteinian critique of noncognitivist theories of ethics.)
	McDowell, J. (1992) ‘Meaning and Intentionality in Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy’, Midwest Studies in Philosophy 17: 40–52. (Defends a reading of Wittgenstein as ‘quietist’ – one who disavows any substantive philosophical position.)
	Phillips, D.Z. and Mounce, H.O. (1969) Moral Practices, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. (Wittgensteinian argument for the ineliminable diversity of moral life.)
	Pitkin, H.F. (1972) Wittgenstein and Justice,, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. (Extended discussion of the significance of the later Wittgenstein for political theory.)
	Rhees, R. (1984) Recollections of Wittgenstein, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (For insight into Wittgenstein’s personality and moral concerns.)
	Wittgenstein, L. (1921) Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, trans. D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1961. (The only philosophical work by Wittgenstein published during his lifetime, and the source for his ‘early’ view of logic and language; sections 6.4 onwards relate to ethics.)
	Wittgenstein, L. (1929) ‘Lecture on Ethics’, first published posthumously in 1965 as ‘Wittgenstein’s Lecture on Ethics’, in Philosophical Review 74: 3–26. (Short statement influenced by the general philosophical position of the Tractatus; with valuable background material by F. Waismann and R. Rhees.)
	Wittgenstein, L. (1953) Philosophische Untersuchungen, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe, ed. G.E.M. Anscombe and R. Rhees, Philosophical Investigations, Oxford: Blackwell; 3rd edn, 1967. (Little explicitly on ethics; should be studied as a whole.)
	Wittgenstein, L. (1961) Notebooks 1914–1916, ed. G.E.M. Anscombe and G.H. von Wright, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe, Oxford: Blackwell; 2nd edn, 1979. (Contains interesting pre-Tractarian material on ethics and the will.)
	Wittgenstein, L. (1980) Vermischte Bermerkungen, trans. P. Winch, ed. G.H. von Wright and H. Nyman, Culture and Value, Oxford: Blackwell. (Collected remarks, mainly from the 1930s and 40s.)