Wittgenstein and Beyond (Routledge Festschrifts in Philosophy)

This volume celebrates the work of Hans-Johann Glock, a philosopher renowned for both his exegesis of Wittgenstein and his many contributions to debates in contemporary philosophy. It brings together 16 new essays by up-and-coming and distinguished philosophers engaging with Glock’s work, and it concludes with a "Reflections and Replies" chapter in which Glock responds to his interlocutors.

Glock’s distinctive philosophical voice features a rare combination of a Wittgenstein-inspired approach with a willingness to break away from Wittgenstein to tackle problems in an open-minded way. The broad selection of essays included in this volume reflects Glock’s wide-ranging philosophical interests and demonstrates the potential of applying Wittgensteinian insights to advance current systematic debates in philosophy. The chapters discuss Wittgenstein’s philosophy, metaphilosophy, truth and language, animal minds and agency, and reasons and normativity.

Wittgenstein and Beyond will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on Wittgenstein, metaphilosophy, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.

Christoph C. Pfisterer is a postdoctoral teaching and research assistant at the University of Zurich. He works on various topics of early analytic philosophy, as well as on contemporary philosophy of perception. He has recently published on Wittgenstein and Frege, and is currently completing a book manuscript on the language of perception.

Nicole Rathgeb is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bern and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of mind (belief, self-knowledge, and first-person authority) and philosophical methodology (conceptual analysis, conceptual engineering, ordinary language philosophy). She is currently co-editing the Metzler Handbook of Philosophy of Mind and writing a book on conceptual analysis.

Eva Schmidt is Assistant Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at TU Dortmund. She works on epistemic reasons and reasons for action, explainable artificial intelligence, and perception. She is the author of Modest Nonconceptualism: Epistemology, Phenomenology, and Content (Springer, 2015); "Where Reasons and Reasoning Come Apart" (2021); and a co-author of "From Responsibility to Reason-Giving Explainable Artificial Intelligence" (2022).