Authors of this Volume
Natalie Alana Ashton
born 1990, has been a postdoc on the ERC funded“Emergence of Relativism”project at the Uni- versity of Vienna since 2015. Before this she studied for her PhD at the University of Edinburgh.
Her research concerns the political and social aspects of epistemology, specifically the effects of oppression and power on epistemic justification. She has published papers inEpistemeandThe- oria, and her first publication won the 2014TeoremaYoung Scholars Essay Prize.
natalie.ashton@univie.ac.at
Anna Boncompagni
born in 1973, is Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Irvine, where she teaches social epistemology and works on the development of Wittgenstein-inspired hinge epis- temology in a social direction. More broadly, her research interests range from the philosophy of language to epistemology, the history of analytic philosophy, and feminism. During her PhD years at the University of Roma Tre, Italy, she dealt with a comparison between the later Witt- genstein and American pragmatism, which resulted in the publication ofWittgenstein and Prag- matism: On Certainty in the Light of Peirce and James(Palgrave Macmillan, 2016). She is also the author ofWittgenstein: Lo sguardo e il limite(Mimesis, 2012, in Italian), and of articles and book chapters on different aspects of Wittgenstein’s thought, including a contribution on Wittgenstein and James inThe Oxford Handbook of William James(in press).
anna.boncompagni@uci.edu
Marco Brusotti
ist Professor für Geschichte der zeitgenössischen Philosophie an der Università del Salento (Lecce, Italien) und Privatdozent für Philosophie an der TU Berlin. Studium der Philosophie an der Universität Genua (Italien). Promotion und Habilitation in Philosophie an der TU Berlin.
Joachim Tiburtius-Preisträger 1995 (Senat für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Berlin). Mitglied im Internationalen Graduiertenkolleg Philosophie: Formen und Geschichte des philosophischen Wissens (Paris Sorbonne / Universität zu Köln / Università del Salento). Seit 2010 Mitglied des Vorstands und seit 2012 Vorsitzender der Nietzsche-Gesellschaft. Stiftungsrat der Friedrich- Nietzsche-Stiftung (Naumburg/S.). Mitglied im Wissenschaftlichen Beirat derNietzsche-Studien, der Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung und der Forschungsplattform Nietzsche Online (de Gruyter, Berlin/Boston). Mitglied des deutsch-italienischen Zentrums für Europäische Exzellenz Villa Vigoni. Monographie zu Wittgenstein:Wittgenstein, Frazer und die„ethnologische Betrachtungsweise“, Berlin/Boston 2014. Unter den jüngsten Aufsätzen:„What belongs to a language game is a whole culture.“On two related concepts in Wittgenstein’s philosophy. In:
Wittgenstein-Studien(9/2018). Ethnologische Betrachtungsweisen: Wittgenstein, Frazer, Sraffa.
In:Wittgenstein-Studien(7/2016).„That they point, is all there is to it.“Wittgenstein, Frazer, eine
„Tatsachensammlung“und ihre„übersichtliche Darstellung“. In: L. Albinus, J. G. F. Rothhaupt, A.
Seery (Hg.):Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer: the Text and the Matter, Berlin/Boston, 2016.
marco.brusotti@unisalento.it
Enzo De Pellegrin
was born in Vienna, Austria, and studied at the University of Vienna, where he received his doc- torate in philosophy in 2000 with a dissertation on machine and mechanism analogies in the writings of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He has been a visiting scholar at the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (1997) and spent several years as a post-doctoral researcher at Boston University (2001–7) and Harvard University (2004–7). An independent scholar since 2007, De Pellegrin contributed numerous translations to both volumes ofErnst Zermelo–Collected Papers edited by Heinz-Dieter Ebbinghaus, Craig G. Fraser and Akihiro Kanamori (2010, 2013). He is the editor of the volumeInteractive Wittgenstein: Essays in Memory of Georg Henrik von Wright (2011).
depellegrinenzo@gmail.com
Timo-Peter Ertz
geb. 1974. Studium der Elektrotechnik, Psychologie, Politikwissenschaft und Philosophie in Trier, Bristol und Oxford. Von 2007–11 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Philosophie in Jena. Seit 2011 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Philosophie in Gießen; dort seit 2013 Akademischer Rat für Ethik und Geschichte der Philosophie.
Timo-peter.ertz@phil.uni-giessen.de
Michel Le Du
born 1961, is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Aix-Marseille. From 2000 to 2017 he taught at the University of Strasbourg. His main fields of interest are the philosophy of social science and the philosophy of mind. He authoredLa nature sociale de l’esprit: Wittgen- stein, la psychologie et les sciences humaines(Vrin, 2005) and co-editedWittgenstein and Aesthet- ics: Problems and Perspectives (Ontos, 2012). He also translated into French works by Peter Winch (The Idea of a Social Science, 2009) and Norman Malcolm (Wittgenstein: a Religious Point of View, 2014).
michel.LE-DU@univ-amu.fr
Francis Y. Lin
born in 1964. He graduated in 1985 from China University of Mining and Technology with a BEng in Automatic Control. In 1986 he went to University of Essex and obtained an MSc and then a PhD in Computer Science (supervisor: Prof. Raymond Turner). From 1990 to 1996 he worked as Research Associate and then Senior Research Associate in the Computational Linguistics
Unit, School of English Studies, Communication and Philosophy, University of Cardiff, working with Prof. Robin Fawcett on building an intelligent dialogue system utilizing Systemic Function- al Grammar. Having got absorbed in the foundations of linguistic, he went to University of Ox- ford (1996–2003) to pursue an MPhil and a DPhil in Linguistics (supervisor: Prof. James Higgin- botham). While at Oxford, he had the fortune to have frequent meetings with Prof. Sir Peter F.
Strawson to discuss issues in linguistics and philosophy. He was employed as a lecturer in Uni- versity of London from 2000 to 2004. In the summer of 2004 he returned to China to work as Professor of Linguistics at Beijing Normal University. He became Distinguished Professor in Hu- manity Sciences at Beihang University in May 2010, and in Septermber 2016 moved to Beijing International Studies University as Xiangyu Professor. His main research interests are in Theo- retical Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language (especially Wittgenstein).
ylin@bisu.edu.cn
Andrew Lugg
born 1942, is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus, University of Ottawa, Canada. Based in Canada, he also taught briefly in the USA and Belgium. Currently he is completing a book on Wittgen- stein’sRemarks on Colour and planning one on Quine’s philosophy. Besides journal articles he has two books to his name,Wittgenstein’sPhilosophical Investigations1–133 (Routledge, 2000, 2004 pbk) andPseudociencia, Racionalismo y Cientismo(Ediciones de Filosofia Applicada, Lima, 2001), a collection of essays in Spanish translation. He now works and lives in Montreal.
andrewlugg@sympatico.ca
Sofia Miguens
born 1969, is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Porto, where she has been teaching since 1996, and a member of its Institute of Philosophy (IF). She has been a visiting scholar at NYU (2000), Institut Nicod–Paris (2008) and the University of Sydney–Australia (2013), and a visiting professor at the University of Amiens in 2017. She has lectured in many other universities in Spain, France, Austria, Finland, Turkey and Brazil. Her current research concentrates on issues belonging to philosophy of mind, language and action and to the history of contemporary philosophy. She is author of seven books and editor of many others, most re- centlyThe Logical Alien(Harvard University Press, forthcoming 2019).
smiguens@letras.up.pt
Alois Pichler
born 1966, studied in Innsbruck and Bergen. He received his Dr.art. from the University of Bergen in 2001 withWittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen: Vom Buch zum Album(published in 2004). He is Professor at the Philosophy Department of the University of Bergen and Head of its Wittgenstein Archives. His main research interests lie in Wittgenstein research, editorial philol- ogy and digital humanities. He is one of the founders and editors of the Open Access journal Nordic Wittgenstein Reviewas well as the Springer book seriesNordic Wittgenstein Studies.He has recently publishedLudwig Wittgenstein and Us’Typical Western Scientists’(2015),Recollec-
tions from Encounters with Georg Henrik von Wright(2016),Understanding the Immediacy of Other Minds(2017, together with N. Gangopadhyay) andNew Essays on Frege: Between Science and Literature(2018, together with G. Bengtsson and S. Säätelä).
Alois.Pichler@uib.no
Constantine Sandis
born New Dehli, 1976, is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, Member Col- laborateur at CRÉ, Université de Montréal, Secretary of the British Wittgenstein Society, and Fel- low of the Royal Society of Arts. His research interests include the philosophy of action, heritage ethics, Wittgenstein, Hume, and Hegel. He is the author ofThe Things We Do and Why We Do Them(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) andCharacter and Causation: Hume’s Philosophy of Action (Routledge, 2019) and has edited and co-edited numerous books includingPhilosophy of Action from Suarez to Anscombe(Routledge, 2019),Cultural Heritage Ethics (Open Book Publishers, 2015),Human Nature(Cambridge University Press, 2012), andA Companion to the Philosophy of Action(Blackwell, 2010). Sandis is also the series editor ofWhy Philosophy Matters,Philoso- phers in Depth, andAnthem Studies in Wittgenstein.He is currently writing a book on under- standing others for Yale University Press.
c.sandis@herts.ac.uk
Genia Schönbaumsfeld
is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton. She is the author ofThe Illusion of Doubt(Oxford University Press, 2016),A Confusion of the Spheres: Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein on Philosophy and Religion(Oxford University Press, 2007) andTranszendentale Argumentation und Skeptizismus(Peter Lang, 2000). She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Regensburg and associate editor ofPhilosophical Investigations.Currently, she is working on the connections between radical scepticism and epistemic vice.
G.M.E.Schoenbaumsfeld@soton.ac.uk
Werner Stegmaier
geb. 1946. Studium der Philosophie, Germanistik und Latinistik an den Universitäten Tübingen und Wien. 1974 Promotion in Tübingen bei Karl Ulmer und Josef Simon mit der SchriftDer Sub- stanzbegriff der Metaphysik. Aristoteles–Descartes– Leibniz.1984–1989 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter an der Universität Bonn und Redakteur derAllgemeinen Zeitschrift für Philosophie.
1990 Habilitation in Bonn mit der SchriftPhilosophie der Fluktuanz. Dilthey und Nietzsche.Nach Lehrstuhlvertretungen in Berlin und Greifswald 1994–2011 Gründungsdirektor des Instituts für Philosophie der Universität Greifswald und Ordinarius für Philosophie mit dem Schwerpunkt Praktische Philosophie. 1995–2002 Aufbau und Leitung desNord- und osteuropäischen Forums für Philosophie.1999–2017 Mitherausgeber der Nietzsche-Studienund derMonographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung.Jüngste Veröffentlichungen (Monographien):Philosophie der Ori- entierung(2008),Nietzsches Befreiung der Philosophie. Kontextuelle Interpretation des V. Buchs der
„Fröhlichen Wissenschaft“(2012),Orientierung im Nihilismus–Luhmann meets Nietzsche(2016).
Jüngste Abhandlung zu Wittgenstein: Schreiben / Denken : Nietzsche–Wittgenstein, in: Nietz- sche-Studien 46 (2017), S. 184–218.
stegmai@uni-greifswald.de
Chon Tejedor
is Profesora de Filosofía at the University of Valencia, Spain. Until recently, she was Senior Lec- turer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire (2014–2017) and, for 12 years, Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Oxford (2002–2014). Her research focuses on Wittgenstein’s early treatment of ethics, science, metaphysics and language. She is currently developing a new strand of research on the ethics of belonging. Her publications includeThe Early Wittgenstein on Metaphysics, Natural Science, Language and Value(Routledge, 2015) andStarting with Witt- genstein(Bloomsbury, 2011).
Chon.Tejedor@uv.es
Melanie Uth
geb. 22.03.1979. Studium der Romanistischen Linguistik und der Philosophie in Hamburg. 2007– 2010 Promotion zu französischer Semantik und Pragmatik in Stuttgart. 2010–2012 wissen- schaftliche Mitarbeiterin, seit 2012 akademische Rätin auf Zeit am Romanischen Seminar der Universität zu Köln, seit 2017 Leiterin des SFB-Projekts:„Prominence marking and language contact in Spanish“, SFB 1252,Prominence in Language.Jüngste Veröffentlichungen:„Contrastive focus in Yucatecan Spanish“, in: Gallego, A.J. (ed.),The syntactic variation of Spanish dialects, Oxford 2018 (zusammen mit Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo und Martín Sobrino) (2018);„La marcación de número en los préstamos españoles del maya yucateco: Variación y restricciones“.Cuadernos de Lingüística5(1)/2018, 183–224 (zusammen mit Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Bravo).
melanie.uth@uni-koeln.de
Nuno Venturinha
born 1976, is Professor Auxiliar de Filosofia at the Nova University of Lisbon and a member of its Institute of Philosophy (IFILNOVA). He taught as a visiting lecturer at the University of Lisbon and as a visiting professor at the Universities of São Paulo and Valencia. He has also been a vis- iting researcher on various occasions at the Universities of Bergen, Innsbruck, Oxford, Cam- bridge and Helsinki. His current research concentrates on issues belonging to epistemology, phi- losophy of language and philosophy of religion, especially in Wittgenstein. He is the authorof Lógica, Ética, Gramática: Wittgenstein e o Método da Filosofia(INCM, 2010) andDescription of Situations: An Essay in Contextualist Epistemology(Springer, 2018) as well as the editor ofWitt- genstein After His Nachlass(Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) andThe Textual Genesis of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations(Routledge, 2013, 2016 pbk).
nventurinha.ifl@fcsh.unl.pt
Vicente Sanfélix Vidarte
born in 1957, is Professor at the University of Valencia, Spain. During his long academic career, he has been invited by several universities of America and Europa. Editor of a Spanish/English edition of Hume’sAn Enquiry concerning Human Understandingand a Spanish/German edition of Wittgenstein’sNotebooks 1914–1916, his philosophical interests concern the theory of knowl- edge, philosophical anthropology and modern and contemporary philosophy.
Vicente.Sanfelix@uv.es
