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A Greek-born Madrid-based digital project manager, specializing in online product design and development. She is also the Manager of the MVDM Mentor Program at IE and a member of the UWC International Council. She has consulted on and managed a variety of projects in the field of executive education, lifelong learning, and learning innovation, having worked with world-renowned universities and European NGOs. Currently, she is working on a number of youth training and arts & humanities initiatives, while exploring her research interests in a diverse spectrum of areas, such as mentoring, digital humanities, and visual grammar in design. +
A University of Milan philosophy graduate, Tommaso Furlan’s main research interest is the early production of Edmund Husserl concerning the philosophy of arithmetics. He is a member of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project’s proofreading team and he manages the project’s Twitter profile. +
After studying Biotechnology at the university, motivated, as it were, by the search for knowledge, Alberto Buscató Vázquez decided to change his path to philosophy. For that purpose, he did an M.Sc. in Cognitive Science and an M.A. in philosophy, both in Germany. He currently focuses on writing about culture, history, and philosophy, while planning to live with less and contribute the most. +
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Announcements or reports on conferences and events related to Wittgenstein. +
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Born 1991, studied in Kassel. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Bergen and the University of Kassel in 2021, with the thesis Wittgensteins Grammatik des Fremdseelischen (Berlin: Metzler, 2021). She has been a Research Fellow at the Wittgenstein Archives Bergen at the University of Bergen (2018-2021) and the Institute for Philosophy at Université Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris (2020). Her main research interests lie in Wittgenstein, philosophy of language, aesthetics and philosophy of science. She is now an assistant professor at the TU Dortmund. +
Born in 1997 in Los Angeles, Javier Arango is a literary translator and graduate student in the Philosophy Ph.D. program at UCLA. Javier obtained a B.A. in Philosophy from Harvard University in 2021, writing a thesis on the metaphilosophy of Rudolf Carnap, which was awarded highest honors. His current research interests are in Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and its relations to contemporaneous philosophical traditions. +
Born in 2000 in Amman, Marwan Mahmoud is a translator, and currently pursuing a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Jordan. His current research interests include Wittgenstein’s philosophy, analytic philosophy and contemporary philosophy. He is the founder of the Arabic-language Ludwig Wittgenstein Project, which he is working on in cooperation with the publishing house Dar Al-Rafidain. He has translated Wittgenstein’s ''On Certainty'' into Arabic, and works on translating more books by Wittgenstein within his project. +
David Chandler recently obtained a Bachelor of Arts from King’s College London. His current research interests include the work of the Later Wittgenstein, contemporary metaphilosophical considerations, and the history and philosophy of colour. He will soon be commencing his graduate studies at University College London. +
Désirée Weber is an Associate Professor at the College of Wooster. She completed her Ph.D. in Political Theory on Wittgenstein’s later philosophy and its implications for normativity and judgment at Northwestern University in 2016. Her research has included efforts on archival and digital preservation of Wittgenstein manuscripts, as well as the pedagogic elements of Wittgenstein’s work and biography. +
Filippo Villaggi, born 1998, accomplished his Master's Degree in philosophy at Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan) and ICT (Toulouse), with a thesis entitled ''The End of Philosophy in Martin Heidegger's and Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Thought''. He contributes to The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project as editor and translator. +
Frederic Kettelhoit is a software developer who fell down the rabbit hole of Wittgenstein’s philosophy and has been trying to make Wittgenstein’s ''Nachlass'' more accessible through software ever since. He studied computer science and philosophy before writing his Ph.D. on Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics. +
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Interviews and discussions with Wittgenstein scholars, translators, etc. +
Introductions to specific writings by Wittgenstein, for example in the form of essays on “Why to read the ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus''”, “Why to read ''On Certainty''”; and, more generally, pieces whose content deals with Wittgenstein’s work. +
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Ioanna Bartsidi was born in Thessaloniki in 1993. She studied philosophy at the École normale supérieure in Paris and is currently preparing a Ph.D. on historicity and presentism in Hegel and post-Hegelianism. She holds an M.A. from the University of Paris 1 and the ''agrégation de philosophie'' and is working as a teaching and research assistant at the Université Paris-Nanterre. She has translated various texts into English, French and Greek. +
Joshua Eisenthal is a Research Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the California Institute of Technology and an Editor at the Einstein Papers Project. He completed his PhD in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, writing a dissertation on Heinrich Hertz’s ''Principles of Mechanics'' and the influence on Wittgenstein’s ''Tractatus''. His research interests are in the history and philosophy of physics and early analytic philosophy, particularly the philosophical issue of representation (in logic, mathematics, geometry, physics, and language) during the various intellectual revolutions of the turn of the century. +
Luca Bernardi (1991) grew up in Bolzano. He has translated more than twenty novels and nonfiction books from English for major Italian publishers. In 2016 he published his first novel ''Medusa''. +
Melina Bentes is a master’s candidate in Philosophy at Nova University of Lisbon. She is Portuguese-Brazilian and has been contributing to the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project since 2023 as a translator and editor. She is a lawyer licensed by the Brazilian Bar Association and has research experience in legal theory, critical legal studies and theories of justice. Her ongoing research is concerned with the development of a legal epistemology based in Wittgenstein’s ''On Certainty''. +
Michele Lavazza is a translator, digital humanities enthusiast, learning technologies specialist, and free culture advocate. He holds a Master’s Degree in philosophy from the University of Milan; his thesis on Wittgenstein and transcendental philosophy was partly written in Milan and partly at the Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. He founded the Ludwig Wittgenstein Project in 2020. +
Mohcen (Mohamed Ahcene) Houari, Wittgensteinian PhD in Logic, Epistemology and Philosophy of Language, Algiers 2 University. Professor of Epistemology and Philosophy of Language, University of Tizi Ouzou, Algeria. Magistère on the foundations of logical atomism in Russell and Wittgenstein. Master's degree in law and qualification for the lawyer's profession. +
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News about additional features being deployed on the website or technical accounts of how this or that piece of the LWP’s web infrastructure works. +