Viktoras Bachmetjevas
is an Associate Professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He works in the field of continental ethics, with a special interest in its intersections with philosophy of religion. He has published on Kierkegaard, Levinas and 20th-century French philosophy.
Maura Ceci
is a graduate student at Leiden University in the Netherlands. She is currently finishing her double Masters in Philosophical Anthropology and Philosophy Politics and Economy (ppe), the first element mostly focusing on the relationship between body and power in Michel Foucault’s philosophy, and the second with a final thesis on Wittgenstein and populism. She published an article in 2019 entitled ‘Between Indefinability and Usage: Towards an Understanding of Populism’, a topic that she is currently exploring extensively through the lens of Rabelais and Foucault.
Teodora Marija Grigaitė
is a Philosophy and Pedagogy programme graduate from Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania. Her current research centres around the relationship between the philosophy and phenomenology of humour and laughter and various social movements, with particular focus on feminism.
Sarah W. Hirschfield
is J.D. candidate at Yale Law School. She graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with an A.B. in Philosophy and received an M.Phil. in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar. Her interests are in ethics, philosophy of law, and feminist philosophy. She is a failed comedian.
David F. Hoinski
is currently Teaching Assistant Professor at West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA. He is a co-organizer of the Summer Conference in Continental Ethics (scce) and a founding member of the Consortium for Classical and Contemporary Philosophy (cccp).
is a researcher and teacher in philosophy, with main expertise and interests in phenomenology, existentialism, philosophical anthropology and philosophy of technology. He has numerous publications in these areas, with his first book entitled Sartre and Magic. Being, Emotion and Philosophy, appearing with Bloomsbury Academic in 2019. His latest main project, a three-year one carried out for fondecyt and hosted by Universidad Diego Portales in Santiago, Chile, is entitled The Phenomenology of Virtual Technology. Perception and Imagination in a Digital Age, and was published also by Bloomsbury in 2022. He has recently completed an M.Sc. (with merit) in Environmental Management at Brunel University London, and is currently working in the environmental sector.
Mira Magdalena Sickinger
is writing her doctoral thesis on the pragmatics of ‘deep jokes’. She investigates within the fields of analytic aesthetics, philosophy of language, epistemology, philosophy of humour, philosophy of literature, and philosophy of music. She guest edited a special issue on ‘Michael Ayers’ Knowing and Seeing. Groundwork for a New Empiricism’, in Grazer Philosophische Studien (2021), and has published ‘Musician’s (Don’t) Play Algorithms. Or: What makes a musical performance’, in Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy (2020).
David Sommer
is a Ph.D. Student at University College London who researches Kantianism and German Idealism, with a focus on Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre. He is currently researching form and matter in early German Idealism, and has most recently published ‘General Logic and the Foundational Demonstration of the First Principle in Fichte’s Eigene Meditationen and Early Wissenschaftslehre’ in The Enigma of Fichte’s First Principles (Brill, 2021).
Alberto Voltolini
(Ph.D. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa 1989) is a philosopher of language and mind working on intentionality, depiction and fiction, perception, and Wittgenstein. He is currently Professor in Philosophy of Mind at Turin University. He has visited the Universities of California, Riverside, anu Canberra, Barcelona, Institute of Philosophy London, Auckland and Antwerp. He belonged to the Steering Committee of the European Society for Analytic Philosophy and to the board of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology. He is now a member of the board of the International Society for
Zoe Walker
is a Career Development Fellow in Philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford University. She works on various issues at the intersection of art, language and morality, and wrote her Ph.D. on the philosophy of humour, comedy and joking, and their relevance to aesthetics, ethics, philosophy of language and philosophy of mind. She is interested in when joking is not ‘only joking’, how sense of humour develops, and its connection to perception and cognition. Outside of her Ph.D. research, she has also written on Dave Chappelle’s stand-up comedy about the lgbtq+ community, and spoken at the Forum for Philosophy about the relationship between comedy and philosophy.