Dr Nigel Pleasants
Publications
Books
with G Kitching, Marx and Wittgenstein: knowledge, morality and politics, London, Routledge, 2002.
Wittgenstein and the idea of a critical social theory, Routledge, 1999.
Chapters
‘Structure and moral agency in the antislavery and animal liberation movements’, in Grumett D,Muers R (eds) Eating and believing: interdisciplinary perspectives on vegetarianism and theology, London:: T&T Clark., 2008, 198-216
Towards a critical use of Marx and Wittgenstein, in Kitching G,Pleasants N (eds) Marx and Wittgenstein: knowledge, morality and politics, Routledge, 2002, 160-181
Journal articles
'Moral argument is not enough: The persistence of slavery and the emergence of abolition', Philosophical Topics, vol. 38, no. 1, 2011, 139-160
Wittgenstein and Basic Moral Certainty, Philosophia, vol. 37 (4), 2009
Structure, Agency and Ontological Confusion: A Response to Hay, Political Studies, vol. 57, no. 4, 2009, 885-891
Review of P. Tabensky (ed.) Judging and understanding: essays on free will, narrative, meaning and the ethical limits of condemnation, Philosophical Papers, vol. 37, no. 1, 2008, 177-184
‘Wittgenstein, ethics and basic moral certainty’, Inquiry, vol. 51, no. 3, 2008, 241-267
‘Institutional wrongdoing and moral perception’, Journal of Social Philosophy, vol. 39, no. 1, 2008, 96-115
Nonsense on stilts? Wittgenstein, ethics, and the lives of animals, Inquiry, vol. 49, no. 4, 2006, 314-336 DOI
The concept of learning from the study of the Holocaust, History of the Human Sciences, vol. 17, no. 2-3, 2004, 187-210 DOI
‘Social criticism for “critical critics”?’ (A response to Stephen Kemp), History of the Human Sciences,, vol. 2/3, 2003, 95-100
A philosophy for the social sciences: realism, pragmatism, or neither?, Foundations of Science, vol. 8, no. 1, 2003, 69-87
Rich egalitarianism, ordinary politics, and the demands of justice., Inquiry, vol. 45, no. 1, 2002, 97-117 DOI
'Winch and Wittgenstein on understanding ourselves critically: descriptive not metaphysical', Inquiry, vol. 43, no. 3, 2000, 289-318
'Winch, Wittgenstein, and the idea of a critical social theory',, History of the Human Sciences, vol. 13, no. 1, 2000, 78-91
'From critical theory to Habermas's critical social theory: a change of paradigm?', Imprints: A Journal of Analytic Socialism, vol. 3, no. 1, 1998, 49-78
'Free to act otherwise? A Wittgensteinian deconstruction of the concept of agency in contemporary social and political theory', History of the Human Sciences, vol. 10, no. 4, 1997, 1-28
'The post-positivist dispute in social studies of science and its bearing on social theory', Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 14, no. 3, 1997, 143-156
'The epistemological argument against socialism: a Wittgensteinian critique of Hayek and Giddens', Inquiry, vol. 40, no. 1, 1997, 23-45
'A Wittgensteinian social theory? Introducing reflexivity to Marxism', Philosophy of the Social Sciences,, vol. 26, no. 3, 1996, 397-416
'Nothing is concealed: de-centring tacit knowledge and rules from social theory', Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, vol. 26, no. 3, 1996, 233-255
