Maria Venieri studied philosophy at the University of Athens and obtained her Ph.D in philosophy from the University of Munich (1988). The subject of her thesis was Wittgenstein ueber philosophische Erklaerung (Peter Lang 1989). Since 1990 she has been teaching at the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the University of Crete.

Selected publications

• "Sprachspiele und Religion", in ? . S. Johannessen and T. Nordenstam (eds.) Culture and Value. Philosophy and the Cultural Sciences , Vol. 3, The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, Kirchberg am Wechsel, 1995 (Proceedings of the 18th International Wittgenstein Symposium), 432-438
• "Putnam's Argument on Brains in a Vat", Skepsis 7 (1996), 95-104
• "Functionalism and qualia", Deucalion 20 (2002), 197-209 (in Greek)
• "Die Kritik Wittgensteins an dem Szientismus des Wiener Kreises", Philosophisches Jahrbuch 109 (2002), 343-353
• "The Private Language Argument and Qualia", Symposium ¨LudwigWittgenstein, 50 years after his Death, Ioannina 2002, 27-34 (in Greek)
• "The Argument from Hallucination", Proceedings of the 21st World Congress of Philosophy, Istanbul 2003 (forthcoming)