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24Die Seele der österreichischen Philosophie? (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 71 (6): 951-957. 2023.
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The sociology of philosophical canons : the case of Georg SimmelIn Sandra Lapointe & Erich H. Reck (eds.), Historiography and the Formation of Philosophical Canons, Routledge. 2023.
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64The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism (edited book)Routledge. 2019.Debates over relativism are as old as philosophy itself. Since the late nineteenth century, relativism has also been a controversial topic in many of the social and cultural sciences. And yet, relativism has not been a central topic of research in the history of philosophy or the history of the social sciences. This collection seeks to remedy this situation by studying the emergence of modern forms of relativism as they unfolded in the German lands during the "long nineteenth century"—from the E…Read more
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8Jennifer Lackey on Non-Reductionism: A CritiqueIn Christoph Jäger & Winfried Löffler (eds.), Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement. Papers of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2011, The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. pp. 257-268. 2007.
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81IntroductionErkenntnis 79 (S9): 1563-1563. 2014.The main impetus for organizing this event was the publication, in 2011, of Philip Pettit’s and Christian List’s book, *Group Agency*. List and Pettit argue that interpreting institutions like commercial corporations, governments, political parties, trade unions, churches, and universities as group agents offers a better understanding of their internal working and their effects on social life. Pettit and List base their account of group agency on a so-called “functionalist account of agency” whi…Read more
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470Disagreement, Certainties, RelativismTopoi 40 (5): 1097-1105. 2018.This paper seeks to widen the dialogue between the “epistemology of peer disagreement” and the epistemology informed by Wittgenstein’s last notebooks, later edited as On Certainty. The paper defends the following theses: not all certainties are groundless; many of them are beliefs; and they do not have a common essence. An epistemic peer need not share all of my certainties. Which response to a disagreement over a certainty is called for, depends on the type of certainty in question. Sometimes a…Read more
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124De-idealizing Disagreement, Rethinking RelativismHumana Mente 26 (1): 40-71. 2018.Relativism is often motivated in terms of certain types of disagreement. In this paper, we survey the philosophical debates over two such types: faultless disagreement in the case of gustatory conflict, and fundamental disagreement in the case of epistemic conflict. Each of the two discussions makes use of a implicit conception of judgement: brute judgement in the case of faultless disagreement, and rule-governed judgement in the case of fundamental disagreement. We show that the prevalent accou…Read more
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315When Paul Met Ludwig: Wittgensteinian Comments on Boghossian’s AntirelativismIn Katharina Neges, Josef Mitterer, Sebastian Kletzl & Christian Kanzian (eds.), Realism - Relativism - Constructivism: Proceedings of the 38th International Wittgenstein Symposium in Kirchberg, De Gruyter. pp. 203-214. 2017.
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192Summa Contra ScepticosPhilosophical Quarterly 68 (270): 184-193. 2018.This critical notice concerns Duncan Pritchard's Epistemic Angst. 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 comprehensive attempt to defuse Cartesian epistemic scept…Read more
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Epistemological anarchism meets epistemological voluntarism : Feyerabend's against method and van Fraassen's the empirical stanceIn Karim Bschir & Jamie Shaw (eds.), Interpreting Feyerabend: Critical Essays, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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13September 2019. Nietzsches genealogische Methode: Historismus, Relativismus und Anthropologie (review)Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 69 (1): 170-170
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LSP-Research, Philosophy of Science, and the Question-Theoretical Approach -- some Tentative SuggestionsIn Hartmut Schröder (ed.), Subject-Oriented Texts: Language for Special Purposes and Text Theory, De Gruyter. pp. 167--198. 1991.
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59Relativism in the Philosophy of ScienceCambridge University Press. 2021.'Relativism versus absolutism' is one of the fundamental oppositions that have dominated reflections about science for much of its history. Often these reflections have been inseparable from wider social-political concerns regarding the position of science in society. Where does this debate stand in the philosophy and sociology of science today? And how does the 'relativism question' relate to current concerns with 'post truth' politics? In Relativism in the Philosophy of Science, Martin Kusch e…Read more
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3How minds and selves are madeInteraction Studies. Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies / Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systemsinteraction Studies 6 (1): 21-34. 2005.This paper aims at a conceptual clarification of some of the mechanisms that are involved when human selves are made in interactions with each other. Four such broad mechanisms are distinguished: socialisation, classification of self and others, the deference-emotion system, and the attribution and manipulation of the status of the responsible agent. The first two mechanisms are modelled with simple mechanical machines like clocks and signalling devices. Regarding the status of the responsible a…Read more
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The Question-Theoretical Approach in Hermeneutics and LSP-ResearchIn Christer Laurén & Marianne Nordman (eds.), Special Language: From Humans Thinking to Thinking Machines, Multilingual Matters. pp. 53--71. 1989.
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736Relativism in Feyerabend's later writingsStudies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 57 106-113. 2016.
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22Stances, Voluntarism, RelativismIn Dominik Finkelde & Paul M. Livingston (eds.), Idealism, Relativism, and Realism: New Essays on Objectivity Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide, De Gruyter. pp. 131-154. 2020.
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43Descriptive Psychology and Völkerpsychologie—in the Contexts of Historicism, Relativism, and NaturalismHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (1): 226-233. 2020.
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10Das Zeugnis der Holocaustüberlebenden: Gewissheit, Skeptizismus, RelativismusDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (6): 979-991. 2019.To date philosophical reflections on the Holocaust and Holocaust survivor testimony have come almost exclusively from authors in the so-called “Continental tradition”. This paper is an attempt to contribute to the scholarship on Holocaust survivor testimony using some of the concepts and conceptions of “analytic philosophy”, more precisely, some of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s remarks in On Certainty. The paper uses these remarks to analyse the “linguistic despair” expressed by many Holocaust survivors…Read more
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736From Völkerpsychologie to the Sociology of KnowledgeHopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 9 (2): 250-274. 2019.This article focuses on two developments in nineteenth-century (philosophy of) social science: Moritz Lazarus’s and Heymann Steinthal’s Völkerpsychologie and Georg Simmel’s early sociology of knowledge. The article defends the following theses. First, Lazarus and Steinthal wavered between a “strong” and a “weak” program for Völkerpsychologie. Ingredients for the strong program included methodological neutrality and symmetry; causal explanation of beliefs based on causal laws; a focus on groups, …Read more
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22Schwerpunkt: Nietzsches genealogische Methode: Historismus, Relativismus und AnthropologieDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 67 (3): 414-417. 2019.Name der Zeitschrift: Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie Jahrgang: 67 Heft: 3 Seiten: 414-417.
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120Science: IntroductionIn Martin Kusch, Johannes Steizinger, Katherina Kinzel & Niels Jacob Wildschut (eds.), The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism, Routledge. pp. 59-62. 2019.
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551Introduction: A Primer on RelativismIn Martin Kusch, Johannes Steizinger, Katherina Kinzel & Niels Jacob Wildschut (eds.), The Emergence of Relativism: German Thought from the Enlightenment to National Socialism, Routledge. 2019.
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379Relativism in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge RevisitedIn Natalie Alana Ashton, Robin McKenna, Katharina Anna Sodoma & Martin Kusch (eds.), Social Epistemology and Epistemic Relativism, Routledge. 2020.
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446Georg Simmel and PragmatismEuropean Journal of Pragmatism and American Philosophy 11 (1). 2019.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 first and foremost that suggested to many that Simm…Read more
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548The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Relativism (edited book)Routledge. 2019.Relativism can be found in all philosophical traditions and subfields of philosophy. It is also a central idea in the social sciences, the humanities, religion and politics. This is the first volume to map relativistic motifs in all areas of philosophy, synchronically and diachronically. It thereby provides essential intellectual tools for thinking about contemporary issues like cultural diversity, the plurality of the sciences, or the scope of moral values. The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy …Read more
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