The implications of Wittgenstein’s work are still being explored world-wide. The Centre for Wittgensteinian Studies aims to further the study of perhaps the greatest philosopher of the 20th Century.  Membership of the Centre includes Dr Mario von der Ruhr, Director (Swansea University), Dr Ieuan Williams (Swansea University) Mr H O Mounce (Research Fellow) and Professor David Cockburn (University of Wales, Lampeter).

The Centre also corresponds with a wide rangeof members in academic institutions around the UK and Internationally. Members of the Centre continue to pursue their own research in the area of Wittgensteinian Studies.

Research is based on the Rush Rhees Archive, named after one of Wittgenstein’s literary executives and a leading exponent of his thought. The Centre is also the new home for the Blackwell Journal Philosophical Investigations, which is now received by over 850 universities. The journal is the world centre for papers on Wittgenstein.

The Rush Rhees Archive
The Archive was purchased by the University in 1989 after Rush Rhees’death. This archive is an important repository of documents of international significance for philosophers and it consists of 160,000 pages of manuscripts of different kinds. Rush Rhees was an important pupil of Wittgenstein, and his papers are of sufficient importance to have attracted scholars of international repute to Swansea.

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