Alois Pichler

Alois Pichler is a Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen, and Head of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB). His research focuses on Wittgenstein's philosophy, digital editorial philology, text theory, document ontology, and digital humanities. He has led significant projects in digitizing Wittgenstein's Nachlass and developing semantic tools for philosophical research.

• Education: Doctoral thesis at University of Bergen (2001) on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations.

His academic work spans Wittgenstein scholarship, digital text encoding (particularly XML/TEI for manuscripts), and philosophical debates on cognition, religion, and digital agency. Recent publications analyze Wittgenstein's approach to Christian belief and digitization challenges of philosophical works.

Key projects include the Bergen Electronic Edition of Wittgenstein's Nachlass, the Agora project for semantic collaboration, and CLARINO+ optimization of research tools. He has taught internationally (Bulgaria, Germany, Italy, Poland) and served as guest professor at the University of Innsbruck (2017, 2022).