Martin Kusch

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Martin Kusch (born October 19, 1959 in Leverkusen ) is a German philosopher and sociologist. Until 2009 he taught the history of science and philosophy of science as a professor at Cambridge University ; since 2009 he has been professor for applied science theory and theory of knowledge at the University of Vienna .

2013 he received one of the prestigious ERC Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (European Research Council, ERC). In 2008 he was accepted as an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .

Publications (selection)

  • Detail and generality: Introduction to philosophy by GWF Hegel , Reports from the Philosophy Department of the University of Jyväskylä (1984)
  • Ymmärtämisen haaste (Finnish., = The challenge to understand. An introduction to hermeneutics ), Pohjoinen (1986)
  • (with Jaakko Hintikka) Kieli ja maailma (Finnish, = language and world), Pohjoinen (1988)
  • Language as Calculus vs. Language as Universal Medium. A Study in Husserl , Heidegger , and Gadamer , Kluwer (1989)
  • Foucault 's Strata and Fields. A Study in Archaeological and Genealogical Science Studies , Kluwer (1991)
  • Psychologism. A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge , Routledge (1995)
  • (with Harry M. Collins) The Shape of Actions. What Humans and Machines Can Do , MIT Press (1998)
  • Psychological Knowledge. A Social History and Philosophy , Routledge (1999)
  • (Ed.) The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge , Dordrecht: Kluwer (2000)
  • Knowledge by Agreement. The Program of Communitarian Epistemology , Oxford University Press (2002)
  • A Skeptical Guide to Meaning and Rules. Defending Kripke 's Wittgenstein , Acumen & McGill-Queen's (2006)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ERC Advanced Grant for philosopher Martin Kusch ( Memento from December 20, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), December 17, 2013