Michael Kusch
Biographic Data
| ID | 174178 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kusch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kusch |
| SIGNATURE | KUSCH M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4570-7272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why do we argue about the specialness of the social sciences
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900
This paper gives an overview of the intense and prolonged debates concerning the relationships between the natural, social and historical sciences in German-speaking academia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the paper focuses on discussions over cultural history (Schäfer versus Gothein; Buckle and Du Bois-Raymond versus Droysen and Lorenz; von Below versus Lamprecht); the position of psychology (Steinthal, Laza…
Speechlessness: A Conceptual Framework
The phenomenon of speechlessness has hardly been considered in the literature from a psychological point of view. Previous research on speechlessness is limited to the fields of neurology, medicine or psychopathology. The present review aims to consider speechlessness from a psychological perspective distinct from pathology, and to highlight its observability and possible connections to existing research in the context of emotional cognition and …
Cologne questionnaire on speechlessness: Development and validation
Speechlessness forms a psychological concept that describes non-speaking or silence in different situations. Speechlessness occurs in particular during emotional stress. The Cologne Questionnaire on Speechlessness (ger.: Kölner Fragebogen zur Sprachlosigkeit ) is an instrument for measuring speechlessness as a function of emotional perception and processing in situations of emotional stress or existing emotional dysregulation. The questionnaire w…
An item analysis according to the Rasch model of the German 12-item WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0)
Overall, the analysis results according to the Rasch model support the use of the WHODAS 2.0 12-item version as a measure of disability in cancer patients
The genealogical method in epistemology
in which he introduced and defended a genealogical approach to epistemology. In recent years Craig's book has attracted a lot of attention, and his distinctive approach has been put to a wide range of uses including anti-realist metaepistemology, contextualism, relativism, anti-luck virtue epistemology, epistemic injustice, value of knowledge, pragmatism and virtue epistemology. While the number of objections to Craig's approach has accumulated, …
Georg Simmel and Pragmatism
This paper offers some brief reflections on pragmatist themes in Georg Simmel’s philosophy. §1 presents a number of assessments – by Simmel’s contemporaries, by later interpreters, and by Simmel himself – concerning his proximity to pragmatism. §2 offers a reconstruction of Simmel’s 1885-paper “The Relationship between the Theory of Selection and Epistemology,” focusing in particular on what the argument owed to von Helmholtz. It was this paper f…
Summa Contra Scepticos
This critical notice concerns Duncan Pritchard's Epistemic Angst (2016). After a summary of the book, I offer some brief critical comments on five issues: the distinction between overriding and undercutting strategies against scepticism, epistemic relativism, foundationalist hinge epistemology, the relationship between hinge propositions and evidence, and the universality of rational evaluation. Epistemic Angst is Duncan Pritchard's to-date most …
Epistemic relativism, scepticism, pluralism
There are a number of debates that are relevant to questions concerning objectivity in science. One of the eldest, and still one of the most intensely fought, is the debate over epistemic relativism. —All forms of epistemic relativism commit themselves to the view that it is impossible to show in a neutral, non-question-begging, way that one “epistemic system”, that is, one interconnected set of epistemic standards, is epistemically superior to (…
Relativism
Various forms of relativism have been central to the social sciences since their inception. It is important to distinguish between different forms of relativism, according to what feature is claimed to be relative and the parameter to which something is said to be relative. Relativism can take descriptive, normative, or methodological forms. There is much disagreement about which theses are central to a relativist position. Frequently cited these…
Psychologism, History of
Annalisa Coliva on Wittgenstein and Epistemic Relativism
Objectivity and Historiography
Beliefs, Kinds and Rules: A Comment on Kornblith's Knowledge and Its Place in Nature
Reply to my Critics
Rule-Scepticism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: The Bloor-Lynch Debate Revisited
This paper revisits the 1992 debate between David Bloor and Michael Lynch over the importance of Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations for social studies of science. Lynch defended four points: (1) Bloor is committed to a rule-sceptical reading of Wittgenstein; (2) this reading is similar to that proposed by Kripke in 1982; (3) the criticism levelled previously against Kripke also applies to Bloor; (4) the problems besetting Bloor’s rule-s…
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge
Volkerpsychologie--Versuch einer Neuentdeckung: Texte von Lazarus, Steinthal, und Wundt . Georg Eckardt
The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions.The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic types of intentional behavior, which they call polimorphic actions and mimeomorphic actions. Polimorphic actions (such as writing a love letter) are o…
Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge
When did psychology become a distinct discipline? What links the Continental and Analytic traditions in philosophy? Both these questions are answered by this extraordinary account of psychologism in Germany at the turn of the century. Martin Kusch explores the origins of psychologism through the work of two major figures in the history of Twentieth Century philosophy: Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl. Using psychological and historical reconstruc…
Recluse, Interlocutor, Interrogator: Natural and Social Order in Turn-of-the-Century Psychological Research Schools
The Sociological Deconstruction of Philosophical Facts - The Case of Psychologism
Foucault’s Strata and Fields: An Investigation into Archaeological and Genealogical Science Studies
Discursive Formations and Possible Worlds - Reconstruction of Foucault's Archeology
Epistemic relativism, scepticism, pluralism
There are a number of debates that are relevant to questions concerning objectivity in science. One of the eldest, and still one of the most intensely fought, is the debate over epistemic relativism. —All forms of epistemic relativism commit themselves to the view that it is impossible to show in a neutral, non-question-begging, way that one “epistemic system”, that is, one interconnected set of epistemic standards, is epistemically superior to (…
Rule-Scepticism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: The Bloor-Lynch Debate Revisited
This paper revisits the 1992 debate between David Bloor and Michael Lynch over the importance of Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations for social studies of science. Lynch defended four points: (1) Bloor is committed to a rule-sceptical reading of Wittgenstein; (2) this reading is similar to that proposed by Kripke in 1982; (3) the criticism levelled previously against Kripke also applies to Bloor; (4) the problems besetting Bloor’s rule-s…
The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge
Recluse, Interlocutor, Interrogator: Natural and Social Order in Turn-of-the-Century Psychological Research Schools
The genealogical method in epistemology
in which he introduced and defended a genealogical approach to epistemology. In recent years Craig's book has attracted a lot of attention, and his distinctive approach has been put to a wide range of uses including anti-realist metaepistemology, contextualism, relativism, anti-luck virtue epistemology, epistemic injustice, value of knowledge, pragmatism and virtue epistemology. While the number of objections to Craig's approach has accumulated, …
Annalisa Coliva on Wittgenstein and Epistemic Relativism
Objectivity and Historiography
Reply to my Critics
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900
This paper gives an overview of the intense and prolonged debates concerning the relationships between the natural, social and historical sciences in German-speaking academia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the paper focuses on discussions over cultural history (Schäfer versus Gothein; Buckle and Du Bois-Raymond versus Droysen and Lorenz; von Below versus Lamprecht); the position of psychology (Steinthal, Laza…
Georg Simmel and Pragmatism
This paper offers some brief reflections on pragmatist themes in Georg Simmel’s philosophy. §1 presents a number of assessments – by Simmel’s contemporaries, by later interpreters, and by Simmel himself – concerning his proximity to pragmatism. §2 offers a reconstruction of Simmel’s 1885-paper “The Relationship between the Theory of Selection and Epistemology,” focusing in particular on what the argument owed to von Helmholtz. It was this paper f…
Relativism
Various forms of relativism have been central to the social sciences since their inception. It is important to distinguish between different forms of relativism, according to what feature is claimed to be relative and the parameter to which something is said to be relative. Relativism can take descriptive, normative, or methodological forms. There is much disagreement about which theses are central to a relativist position. Frequently cited these…
Husserl and Heidegger on meaning
Husserl and Heidegger on meaning
Discursive Formations and Possible Worlds - Reconstruction of Foucault's Archeology
The Sociological Deconstruction of Philosophical Facts - The Case of Psychologism
Foucault’s Strata and Fields: An Investigation into Archaeological and Genealogical Science Studies
Recluse, Interlocutor, Interrogator: Natural and Social Order in Turn-of-the-Century Psychological Research Schools
Psychologism: A Case Study in the Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge
When did psychology become a distinct discipline? What links the Continental and Analytic traditions in philosophy? Both these questions are answered by this extraordinary account of psychologism in Germany at the turn of the century. Martin Kusch explores the origins of psychologism through the work of two major figures in the history of Twentieth Century philosophy: Gottlob Frege and Edmund Husserl. Using psychological and historical reconstruc…
Volkerpsychologie--Versuch einer Neuentdeckung: Texte von Lazarus, Steinthal, und Wundt . Georg Eckardt
The Shape of Actions: What Humans and Machines Can Do
What can humans do? What can machines do? How do humans delegate actions to machines? In this book, Harry Collins and Martin Kusch combine insights from sociology and philosophy to provide a novel answer to these increasingly important questions.The authors begin by distinguishing between two basic types of intentional behavior, which they call polimorphic actions and mimeomorphic actions. Polimorphic actions (such as writing a love letter) are o…
The Sociology of Philosophical Knowledge
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002)
Reply to my Critics
Rule-Scepticism and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge: The Bloor-Lynch Debate Revisited
This paper revisits the 1992 debate between David Bloor and Michael Lynch over the importance of Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations for social studies of science. Lynch defended four points: (1) Bloor is committed to a rule-sceptical reading of Wittgenstein; (2) this reading is similar to that proposed by Kripke in 1982; (3) the criticism levelled previously against Kripke also applies to Bloor; (4) the problems besetting Bloor’s rule-s…
Beliefs, Kinds and Rules: A Comment on Kornblith's Knowledge and Its Place in Nature
Objectivity and Historiography
Annalisa Coliva on Wittgenstein and Epistemic Relativism
Psychologism, History of
Relativism
Various forms of relativism have been central to the social sciences since their inception. It is important to distinguish between different forms of relativism, according to what feature is claimed to be relative and the parameter to which something is said to be relative. Relativism can take descriptive, normative, or methodological forms. There is much disagreement about which theses are central to a relativist position. Frequently cited these…
Epistemic relativism, scepticism, pluralism
There are a number of debates that are relevant to questions concerning objectivity in science. One of the eldest, and still one of the most intensely fought, is the debate over epistemic relativism. —All forms of epistemic relativism commit themselves to the view that it is impossible to show in a neutral, non-question-begging, way that one “epistemic system”, that is, one interconnected set of epistemic standards, is epistemically superior to (…
Summa Contra Scepticos
This critical notice concerns Duncan Pritchard's Epistemic Angst (2016). After a summary of the book, I offer some brief critical comments on five issues: the distinction between overriding and undercutting strategies against scepticism, epistemic relativism, foundationalist hinge epistemology, the relationship between hinge propositions and evidence, and the universality of rational evaluation. Epistemic Angst is Duncan Pritchard's to-date most …
Georg Simmel and Pragmatism
This paper offers some brief reflections on pragmatist themes in Georg Simmel’s philosophy. §1 presents a number of assessments – by Simmel’s contemporaries, by later interpreters, and by Simmel himself – concerning his proximity to pragmatism. §2 offers a reconstruction of Simmel’s 1885-paper “The Relationship between the Theory of Selection and Epistemology,” focusing in particular on what the argument owed to von Helmholtz. It was this paper f…
The genealogical method in epistemology
in which he introduced and defended a genealogical approach to epistemology. In recent years Craig's book has attracted a lot of attention, and his distinctive approach has been put to a wide range of uses including anti-realist metaepistemology, contextualism, relativism, anti-luck virtue epistemology, epistemic injustice, value of knowledge, pragmatism and virtue epistemology. While the number of objections to Craig's approach has accumulated, …
An item analysis according to the Rasch model of the German 12-item WHO Disability Assessment Schedule (WHODAS 2.0)
Overall, the analysis results according to the Rasch model support the use of the WHODAS 2.0 12-item version as a measure of disability in cancer patients
Cologne questionnaire on speechlessness: Development and validation
Speechlessness forms a psychological concept that describes non-speaking or silence in different situations. Speechlessness occurs in particular during emotional stress. The Cologne Questionnaire on Speechlessness (ger.: Kölner Fragebogen zur Sprachlosigkeit ) is an instrument for measuring speechlessness as a function of emotional perception and processing in situations of emotional stress or existing emotional dysregulation. The questionnaire w…
Speechlessness: A Conceptual Framework
The phenomenon of speechlessness has hardly been considered in the literature from a psychological point of view. Previous research on speechlessness is limited to the fields of neurology, medicine or psychopathology. The present review aims to consider speechlessness from a psychological perspective distinct from pathology, and to highlight its observability and possible connections to existing research in the context of emotional cognition and …
Unity or disunity of the sciences? The German debate around 1900
This paper gives an overview of the intense and prolonged debates concerning the relationships between the natural, social and historical sciences in German-speaking academia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, the paper focuses on discussions over cultural history (Schäfer versus Gothein; Buckle and Du Bois-Raymond versus Droysen and Lorenz; von Below versus Lamprecht); the position of psychology (Steinthal, Laza…
Epistemology (18 works) · Philosophy (18 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (6 works) · Philosophy, Science, and History (5 works) · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (4 works)