Maximilian Philipps, M.A.

Maximilian Philipps is a doctoral student at the Chair of Theoretical Philosophy/Philosophy of Language. Before progressing to his doctoral studies, he studied Philosophy, Business and Media- and Communication Science at the University of Mannheim. His research interests focus on the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein on which he wrote several student papers as well as a final thesis on Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics. His dissertation, which is connected to the chair’s research project „Mind the Meaning: The Philosophy of Psychological Expressivism”, deals with Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Psychology. It focuses on the expressivist tendencies in this late part of Wittgenstein’s oeuvre. 

2024: “Wittgenstein über Gesichtsraum und Grammatik.” In Facetten der Wirklichkeit – Zeitgenössische Debatten: Beiträge des 45. Internationalen Wittgenstein Symposiums, herausgegeben von Yannic Kappes, Asya Passinsky, Julio De Rizzo und Benjamin Schnieder, Band XXX. Kirchberg am Wechsel: Österreichische Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft.