While "scholarship" is often thought to be a solitary pursuit, and the "scholar" is thought of as a loner, it is more accurate to think of the community of scholars. Rarely do we come up with something wholly on our own. Feedback and sharing of ideas are invaluable to the scholarly process. I have to give special credit to Alfred Nordmann, with whom I have done most of my editing work, and G.H. von Wright, from whom I learned much about editing. I also want to thank the younger generation of Wittgenstein scholars, from whom I have always benefited. Here are pictures of some of my favorite folks:
I never met von Wright, but I posed with his bust in Helsinki, 2012
Sarah Anna Uffelman visiting VT in April 2013
I visited Alfred Nordmann in his office in Darmstadt in 2004
Waiting at the bus stop in the rain with Alois Pichler in Bergen, 2012
Visiting Allan Janik in his office in Innsbruck, 2004
With Bernt Österman at the Von Wright and Wittgenstein Archive in Helsinki, 2012
With Christian Erbacher at Strathaird House, Cambridge, 2016
With Gabriel Citron in Iowa City, 2015
Viewing the Norfolk & Southern Railway with Mauro Engelmann in Roanoke, 2016
At the Rogers Albritton Fest, UCLA, 2001
Josef Rothhaupt in Klagenfurt, 2015
With Ilse Somavilla and Joachim Schulte along the Appalachian Trail near Blacksburg, 1999
Alois Pichler in Klagenfurt, 2015
Alois Pichler, Arthur Gibson, Volker Munz & Josef Rothhaupt at Strathaird House, Cambridge, 2016
Bernt Österman & Jonathan Smith at Strathaird House, Cambridge, 2016
Talking with Mathieu Marion in Iowa City, 2015
Lars Hertzberg in Klagenfurt, 2015
I visited Brian McGuinness in 2004 at his home in Siena. I asked him to hold my book.
With Marina Barabášová in Prague, 2004
With Ilse Somavilla at Strathaird House, Cambridge, 2016
With Jakub Mácha in his study, Zlechov CZ, 2014
Dinner with Lars Hertzberg and Josef Rothhaupt, Klagenfurt, 2015
Joachim Schulte, Thomas Wallgren & David Stern at Strathaird House, Cambridge, 2016
Kathy & I with academic staff of the Wittgenstein Archive: Deirdre Smith, Alois Pichler, Sarah Anna Uffelman & Wilhelm Kruger, Bergen, 2012
With Jakub Gomulka at Kirchberg in 2022
With Martin Pilch at Kirchberg in 2022
With Wolfgang Kienzler at Kirchberg in 2023
With Reza Hosseini at Kirchberg in 2023
With Alexander Berg at Kirchberg in 2023