Mohammad Shafiei wrote his PhD dissertation on Husserl and philosophy of logic under the direction of Mark van Atten and Shahid Rahman. He obtained his PhD in 2017 from the University of Paris. He is currently a postdoctoral researcher at Shahid Beheshti University, Iran, working on a project on transcendental logic in Husserl and Kant. His research interests include transcendental phenomenology, philosophical logic, theories of meaning and monadology.
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen’s work is a landmark in Peirce-scholarship since his book Signs of Logic Peircean Themes on the Philosophy of Language, Games, and Communication published by Synthese Library in 2006. He is a philosopher of science, logic, language and human thought. He moved to Astana from Helsinki, Finland and Tallinn, Estonia, where he was professor of philosophy and professor of semiotics for a number of years. He has also had visiting positions at universities in China and Korea. His research interests span from scientific method to human mind and their histories.