Professor Alois Pichler (Philosophy, Bergen, Bergen Wittgenstein Archives), Thomas Bartscherer (Bard College, Language and Thinking Program), David Stern (University of Iowa, Philosophy). How to preserve the diversity and relevance of interpretations in a world of automatic manufacture of semantic ontologies, fan fiction, and elaborated academic platforms of collaboration. One workshop, one public event, one follow-up demonstration of the Arendt, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein platforms with philosophical discussion of the nature of “documents”, “texts”, and “integrity” of a philosophical corpus.  Future collaborations and integrations of platforms are planned. Co-sponsored by the BU Center for the Humanities.

 

Results: Future EU-U.S. collaborations are planned to continue exploration of these relatively uncharted waters of philosophy.  Genetic analysis of particular remarks is machine-implementable and was demonstrated on the Nietzsche Source project.  This is planned as an augmentation to the Wittgensteinsource site, which may be integrated with the Tractatus map.  Theoretical issues concerning the ontology and nature of “integrity” of a text will continue to be discussed among members of the Tuesday seminar.  Pedagogical experimentation with the Wittgensteinsource and University of Iowa Tractatus platforms will commence in the spring of 2018 with seminars at University of Iowa (Stern) and Boston University (BU) garnering some user interface feedback from students about ways of mapping and integrating the platforms into future philosophical work and research. Stern will apply for further funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities to gain support for integrating the platforms.