NGRE Fellow: Dimitri Khakhishvili

Dimitri Khakhishvili is a PhD candidate at Ilia State University and an Assistant Researcher at the Shota Rustaveli Institute of Philosophy. He holds an M.A. in Medieval Studies and won the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation Doctoral Scholarship competition. His research focuses on the problem of the relationship between mind and world in the Middle Ages, with particular emphasis on the philosophy of Peter Abelard. Supported by Erasmus+ research grants, he has conducted research stays at Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Granada, and UCLouvain. He has translated Aron Gurevich’s Categories of Medieval Culture into Georgian. His current research examines the relationship between attention and meaning in medieval philosophy and its links to contemporary thought. He also works on questions of language and cognition to explore continuities between medieval and early modern intellectual traditions.