Alois Pichler is professor in philosophy at the Department of Philosophy and head of the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB, http://wab.uib.no/). His research has a particular focus on Wittgenstein's work and philosophy, digital editorial philology, writing and text theory, document ontology, Digital humanities and philosophy of religion. According to Google Scholar (29.5.2026), his citation impact h-index is 15 and his citation impact i10-index is 26.

For publications and talks see https://wab.uib.no/alois_papers.page og https://wab.uib.no/alois_presents.page. For a CV see https://wab.uib.no/alois_cv-engl.page.

See http://wab.uib.no/alois_presents.page

At the University of Bergen, Alois Pichler mainly gives classes in Examen Philosophicum and Wittgenstein’s philosophy. He has had a number of Erasmus and summer school teaching assignments in Bulgaria, Germany, Italy and Poland. In April 2017, he has been a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck and taught there classes in Wittgenstein, digital editorial philology and text theory / ontology. In January 2022, he has been a guest professor at the University of Innsbruck and taught there a class on Wittgenstein.

Academic monograph

• Alois Pichler; Qiang Xu (2025). [Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein]. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2004). Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen : Vom Buch zum Album. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (1997). Wittgensteins Philosophische Untersuchungen. Zur Textgenese von PU @S@S 1-4. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (1991). Ludwig Wittgenstein, Vermischte Bemerkungen: Liste der Manuskriptquellen - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value: A List of Source Manuscripts. (external link)
• Michael Biggs; Alois Pichler (1993). Wittgenstein: Two Scource Catalogues and a Bibliography. Catalogues of the Published Texts and of the Published Diagrams, each Related to its Sources. Part 1: A Source Catalogue of the Published Texts (A. Pichler). Part 2: A Source Catalogue of the Published Diagrams (M. Biggs). Bibliography (M. Biggs and A. Pichler). (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2023). Style, Method and Philosophy in Wittgenstein. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (1994). Untersuchungen zu Wittgensteins Nachla@s. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Alois Pichler (2026). Wittgenstein's 1938 Preface Drafts for the Philosophical Investigations: A Synoptic Edition. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2025). Understanding Other Cultures, Understanding (Other) Religion. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2010). Towards the New Bergen Electronic Edition. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Tone Merete Bruvik (2017). Éditions critique et séparation de la description et de la présentation. (external link)
• Nivedita Gangopadhyay; Sebastian Sunday Grève; Alois Pichler (2023). A Complex Philosophical Oeuvre and Its Complex User Community: Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future Digitisation of Wittgenstein's Philosophical Writings. (external link)
• Michael P. Oakes; Alois Pichler (2023). The “Diktat für Schlick”: Authorship Research and Computational Stylometry Revisited. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2019). Wittgenstein in (Self-)Translation. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2020). CLARINO+ Optimization of Wittgenstein Research Tools. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2015). Ludwig Wittgenstein and Us 'Typical Western Scientists'. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2021). Complementing Static Scholarly Editions with Dynamic Research Platforms: Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) and Semantic Faceted Search and Browsing (SFB) for the Wittgenstein Nachlass. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2024). Glaube und Aberglaube nach Wittgenstein: Zu nonkognitiven Deutungen der Grammatik des religiösen Glaubens. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Odd Einar Haugen (2005). Fra kombinerte utgaver til dynamisk utgivelse: Erfaringer fra edisjonsfilologisk arbeid med Wittgensteins filosofiske skrifter og nordiske middelaldertekster. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Amélie Zöllner-Weber (2012). Towards Wittgenstein on the Semantic Web. (external link)
• Herbert Hrachovec; Alois Pichler; o. a. (2012). Experiments in Digital Philosophy - Putting new paradigms to the test in the Agora project. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Tone Merete Bruvik (2014). Digital Critical Editing: Separating Encoding from Presentation. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2007). The Interpretation of the Philosophical Investigations: Style, Therapy, Nachlass. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2022). Überlieferung. Editionsgeschichte. Zugangsmöglichkeiten. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2020). Uma tipologia da escrita de alternativas de Wittgenstein. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2011). Problemy interpretacyjne Dociekan filozoficznych Wittgensteina: styl, terapia, Nachlass. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (1992). Wittgenstein's Later Manuscripts: Some remarks on Style and Writing. (external link)
• Max Hadersbeck; Alois Pichler; Daniel Bruder et al. (2016). New (Re)Search Possibilities for Wittgenstein's Nachlass II: Advanced Search, Navigation and Feedback with the FinderApp WiTTFind. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Paul Henry; Arid Utaker (1992). Wittgenstein's Later Manuscripts: Some Remarks on Style and Writing. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2021). Überlegungen dazu, was die digitale genetische Edition leisten kann und leisten soll. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2013). The philosophical investigations and syncretistic writing. (external link)
• Susan Schreibman; Stefan Gradmann; Steffen Hennicke et al. (2013). Beyond Infrastructure: Modelling Scholarly Research and Collaboration. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2018). Wittgenstein on understanding: language, calculus and practice. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2003). Wittgenstein Filozófiai Vizsgálódásai: A könyvtöl az albumig [Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: From the Book to the Album]. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Christian Eric Erbacher (2009). Das ”Wittgenstein MS 101 from September 1914“–Projekt und das Wittgenstein-Archiv an der Universität Bergen / Projekt ”Wittgenstein MS 101 from September 1914“ a Archiwum Wittgensteina na Uniwersytecie w Bergen. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2002). Drei Thesen zu der Entstehung und Eigenart der Philosophischen Untersuchungen: Fragment, Album, Polyphonie. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Florian Fink; Max Hadersbeck et al. (2014). Wittgenstein's Nachlass: WiTTFind and Wittgenstein advanced search tools (WAST). (external link)
• Jakub Mácha; Rune J. Falch; Alois Pichler (2013). Overlapping and Competing Ontologies. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2005). Wittgenstein's Nachlass: Situating the Bergen Electronic Edition. (external link)

Academic article

• Rune J. Falch; Christian Eric Erbacher; Alois Pichler (2013). Some observations on developments towards the Semantic Web for Wittgenstein scholarship. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2023). Interactive Dynamic Presentation (IDP) and Semantic Faceted Search and Browsing (SFB) of the Wittgenstein Nachlass. (external link)
• Mark Addis; Steen Brock; Alois Pichler (2015). Contributions to a Conceptual Ontology for Wittgenstein. (external link)
• Nivedita Gangopadhyay; Alois Pichler (2017). Understanding the immediacy of other minds. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (1993). Wittgensteins Nachla@s. (external link)
• Nivedita Gangopadhyay; Alois Pichler (2021). Texts: A case study of joint action. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2009). Wittgenstein og hans forfatterskap - et forsøk. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2025). For If There Is No Resurrection of the Dead, Then Christ Has Not Been Raised Either": Wittgenstein and the Cognitive Status of Christian Belief Statements. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Michael Biggs; Sarah Szeltner (2011). Bibliographie der deutsch- und englischsprachigen Wittgenstein-Ausgaben. (external link)
• Nivedita Gangopadhyay; Alois Pichler (2024). Embodiment and agency in a digital world. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2006). "Ich habe 14 Tage lang nichts gearbeitet...": Ein Blick auf die Schreibarbeit Wittgensteins. (external link)
• Max Hadersbeck; Alois Pichler; Florian Fink et al. (2012). New (re)search possibilities for Wittgenstein's Nachlass. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Amélie Zöllner-Weber (2013). Sharing and debating Wittgenstein by using an ontology. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Sebastian Sunday Grève (2024). Cognitivism about religious belief in later Wittgenstein. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2020). A Typology of the Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Writing of Text Alternatives. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2009). Wittgenstein’s albums: "Philosophical Investigations" and "Philosophical Remarks" as alternatives to the 'spirit of progress' in philosophy. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Deirdre C.P. Smith (2013). A list of correspondences between Wittgenstein Ts-310 and Ms-115ii. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2018). Ludwig Wittgenstein: A report of two dreams from October 1942 (Ms -126, 21 –26). (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2019). A brief update on editions offered by the Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen and licences for their use (as of June 2018). (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Deirdre C.P. Smith; Rune J. Falch et al. (2012). Elements of an e-Platform for Wittgenstein Research. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2001). Encoding Wittgenstein: Some remarks on Wittgenstein's Nachlass, the Bergen Electronic Edition, and future electronic publishing and networking. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2023). What Is a Work by Wittgenstein. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; James Matthew Fielding; Nivedita Gangopadhyay et al. (2021). Crisscross ontology: Mapping concept dynamics, competing argument and multiperspectival knowledge in philosophy. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2002). Wittgenstein Filozófiai Vizsgálódásai: A könyvtöl az albumig [Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations: From the Book to the Album]. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2021). Hierarchical or Non-hierarchical? A Philosophical Approach to a Debate in Text Encoding. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2013). Reflections on a prominent argument in the Wittgenstein debate. (external link)
• Michael P. Oakes; Alois Pichler (2013). Computational Stylometry of Wittgenstein’s “Diktat für Schlick”. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Gjermund Lanestedt (2007). Humanistisk forskning og publisering i en digital kontekst:Europeiske filosofimiljøer trekker veksler på semantisk metadata-tagging. (external link)

Conference abstract

• Alois Pichler; Rune J. Falch (2012). Open Access to Wittgenstein Primary and Secondary Sources. (external link)

Book anthology

• Paulo Oliveira; Alois Pichler; Arley Moreno (2019). Wittgenstein in / on Translation. (external link)
• Esther Ramharter; Alois Pichler; Friedrich Stadler (2025). 100 Years of Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus - 70 Years after Wittgenstein's Death: Proceedings of the 44th International Ludwig Wittgenstein Symposium. (external link)
• W. Pichler Krüger; Wilhelm Krüger; Alois Pichler (1998). Arbeiten zu Wittgenstein. (external link)
• Lotar Rasinski; Anat Biletzki; Leszek Koczanowicz et al. (2024). Wittgenstein and Democratic Politics: Language, Dialogue and Political Forms of Life. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Simo T S Säätelä (2005). Wittgenstein: The Philosopher and his Works. (external link)
• Herbert Hrachovec; Alois Pichler (2008). Philosophy of the Information Society. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Herbert Hrachovec (2008). Wittgenstein and the Philosophy of Information. (external link)
• Esther Ramharter; Alois Pichler; Friedrich Stadler (2023). 100 Jahre Tractatus - 70 Jahre nach Wittgensteins Tod: Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme / 100 Years Tractatus - 70 Years after Wittgenstein's Death: A Critical Assessment. (external link)
• Gisela Bengtsson; Simo Tuomo Sakari Säätelä; Alois Pichler (2018). New Essays on Frege: Between Science and Literature. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Simo T S Säätelä (2006). Wittgenstein : The Philosopher and his Works. (external link)

Introduction

• Simo T S Säätelä; Alois Pichler (2005). Introduction. (external link)
• Simo T S Säätelä; Alois Pichler (2006). Introduction. (external link)
• Paulo Oliveira; Alois Pichler (2019). Introduction. (external link)

Media interview

• Alois Pichler; Moira De Iaco (2020). L'edizione elettronica del Nachlass di Wittgenstein e le web resources: state of the art e prospettive future. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Kim Andreassen (2010). Filosofi til folket. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2009). Wittgenstein-arkivet på nett!. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2009). Wittgenstein, his Brown Book and his Nachlass. (external link)
• Jon Dagsland Holgersen; Alois Pichler (2007). Utvikler gratis filosofidatabase. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2007). Interview for Studentradioen i Bergen om åpen publisering. (external link)

Popular science article

• Alois Pichler (2013). En mer rettferdig måte å publisere forskning på. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2016). Recollections from Encounters with Georg Henrik von Wright. (external link)
• Alois Pichler; Jan Petter Myklebust (2010). NORWAY: Wittgenstein archives available on line. (external link)

Encyclopedia entry

• Alois Pichler (2024). Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann. (external link)

Editorial/Leader article

• Alois Pichler; Simo Tuomo Sakari Säätelä; Yrsa Neuman (2012). Note by the Editors. (external link)
• Simo Tuomo Sakari Säätelä; Alois Pichler; Yrsa Neuman (2013). Note by the editors. (external link)

Popular science book chapter

• Alois Pichler (2018). Wittgenstein Source, the Bergen Nachlass Edition, and the Bergen Nachlass Transcriptions. (external link)

Journal review

• Alois Pichler (2018). Wittgenstein’s Whewell’s Court Lectures: Cambridge, 1938–1941, from the Notes by Yorick Smythies, edited by Volker A. Munz and Bernhard Ritter. (external link)
• Alois Pichler (2016). Mauro Engelmann, Wittgenstein's Philosophical Development: Phenomenology, Grammar, Method, and the Anthropological View. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in NVA.

Wittgenstein Archives at the University of Bergen (WAB, http://wab.uib.no/)

See also https://wab.uib.no/wab_R&D.page and https://wab.uib.no/alois_cv-engl.page