The LEGACY project thrives through collaborations with distinguished scholars and archives worldwide, focusing on classical authors. These experts contribute by brainstorming innovative tools, validating existing ones, and providing insights into available versions and translations of texts. Here are some of the esteemed members of our expert network:
Kate Cooper – University of London – Specialist on Augustine
Kate Cooper is a renowned historian and author, specializing in the study of women and religion in late antiquity. Her recent work, Queens of a Fallen World: The Lost Women of Augustine’s Confessions, delves into the lives of four influential women in Augustine’s early life: his mother Monnica, his lover, his fiancée, and Empress Justina. Cooper’s research offers a fresh perspective on Augustine’s Confessions, highlighting the significant impact these women had on his life and writings.
Pascal Taranto – Aix-Marseille Université – Specialist on John Stuart Mill
Pascal Taranto is a French philosopher and academic, known for his expertise in modern philosophy and ethics. His work often explores the intersections of philosophy, literature, and society. Taranto’s insights into John Stuart Mill’s philosophy contribute significantly to our understanding of utilitarianism and liberal thought.
Wittgenstein Archive in Bergen
The Wittgenstein Archive is dedicated to preserving and studying the works of Ludwig Wittgenstein, one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. The archive houses a comprehensive collection of Wittgenstein’s manuscripts, notebooks, and correspondences, providing invaluable resources for scholars worldwide. Their ongoing projects aim to make Wittgenstein’s unpublished materials accessible to the public, shedding light on his philosophical development.
Owen Goldin – Marquette University – Specialist on Aristotle
Owen Goldin specializes in ancient philosophy. He authored Explaining an Eclipse and translated works by Philoponus on Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics. His research spans the Presocratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic thought, Jewish philosophy, metaphysics, and social philosophy. He teaches both graduate and undergraduate courses in ancient philosophy.
Allen Wood – Indiana University – Specialist on Immanuel Kant
Professor Allen W. Wood is the Ruth Norman Halls Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University. He is a leading scholar on Immanuel Kant, particularly in ethics and political philosophy. His extensive work explores Kantian moral theory, German idealism, and contemporary ethical debates.
Joshua Forstenzer – University of Sheffield – Specialist on John Dewey
Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Co-Director of the Centre for Engaged Philosophy. Joshua works mostly on John Dewey, the tradition of American pragmatism, democratic education, and other related topics. His work has been supported by the British Academy, the Yale Centre for Faith and Culture, and Higher Education Innovation Funding.
Melissa Yates – Minerva University – Specialist on Habermas
Melissa Yates is a professor of moral and political philosophy. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at Northwestern University researching theories of public reasoning developed by John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas. Yates’ research addresses social, political, and ethical philosophical questions about the ways citizens exercise power, and the institutions that constrain, enable and coerce citizen engagement in public life. In her manuscript in progress, Democracy as Strangers: Governing without Ties of Intimacy, she argues that current democratic theory fails to account for one of the most important realities of contemporary democratic life, namely the fact that the vast majority of democratic citizens are fundamentally strangers to one another.
Stephen Angle – Wesleyan University – Specialist on Confucius
A philosophy writer and researcher specializing in Chinese Philosophy, Confucianism, Neo-Confucianism, and comparative philosophy, Stephen C. Angle’s research focuses on philosophy’s role in human rights, politics, and ethics both in China and globally. Fluent in Mandarin and in classical Chinese, Angle has spent Fulbright years in Taipei and in Beijing, and was a Berggruen Fellow at Tsinghua University during academic year 2016-17. Many of his books and essays have appeared in Chinese translation.
The LEGACY project is honored to collaborate with these distinguished experts, whose contributions enhance our mission to preserve and innovate the exploration of classical texts. If you want to be part of our expert network don’t hesitate to contact us.
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