CONTRIBUTOR:

Anat Biletzki

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor of Philosophy and Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy

DEPARTMENT:

Department of Philosophy and Department of Philosophy

INSTITUTION:

Tel Aviv University and Quinnipiac University

BIOGRAPHY:

Professor Biletzki is professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University and Albert Schweitzer Professor of Philosophy at Quinnipiac University (Connecticut). She has traveled widely, as a visiting fellow and professor at, among others, Cambridge University, Harvard University, the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Boston University, the Wittgenstein Archives in Bergen, Norway, and MIT. Her publications include Paradoxes (1996), Talking Wolves: Thomas Hobbes on the Language of Politics and the Politics of Language (1997), What is Logic?(2002), (Over)Interpreting Wittgenstein (2003), and articles on Wittgenstein, Hobbes, analytic philosophy, political thought, digital culture, and human rights. Currently she is working on two book projects tentatively titled “Detranscendentizing Religion: Hobbes and Wittgenstein” and “Philosophical Investigations into Human Rights.” Outside academia Biletzki has been active in the peace movement and in several human rights projects in Israel-Palestine. She was chairperson of the board of B’Tselem - the Israeli Information center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories in 2001-2006. In 2005 she was chosen as one of “50 most influential women in Israel” by Globes, the Israeli business monthly, and was nominated among the “1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize 2005”.