Faculty Member, Department of Philosophy
University of Vienna, Institute Vienna Circle
Professor for Applied Theory of Science and Epistemology
About
I trained as a philosopher and historian of science at the universities of Berlin (Free University), Toronto, Jyvaskyla, Helsinki, and Oulu (Finland).
1989: PhD "Language as Calculus v Language as Universal Medium" (Supervisor: Jaakko Hintikka)
1993-1997: Lecturer, later Reader, in the Science Studies Unit of the University of Edinburgh
1996-1997: Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellow at the Max-Planck Institute for Psychological Research in Munich (in the research group of Gerd Gigerenzer)
1997-2009: Lecturer, later Reader, and from 2003 Professor, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge
2001-2002: Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin
2008-: Elected Member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences and Letters
2008-2009: Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Helsinki Centre for Advanced Studies
2009-: Professor for Applied Theory of Science and Epistemology, University of Vienna (and Affiliated Research Scholar in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge)
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Upcoming talks:
8.5.2012 University of Hertfordshire (8th Lecture of the British Wittgenstein Society)
"ON CERTAINTY and the Foundations of Mathematics"
9.5.2012 University of East Anglia, Norwich, Department of Philosophy, Wittgenstein Seminar
"ON CERTAINTY and (the Epistemology of) Disagreements"
10.5.2012 Pembroke College, Cambridge
"Wittgenstein on the Anthropology and Psychology of Colour"
24.-26.5.2012 University of Vienna, Workshop on collective intentionality and group agency
"On the Metaphysics of Collective Personhood"
26.-27.6.2012 Vienna, Conference on Wittgenstein on Colour
"Wittgenstein on the Anthropology and Psychology of Colour"
28.-30.6.2012 Universities of Bologna and Modena: Conference of the European Epistemology Network
"ON CERTAINTY and the Foundations of Mathematics"
12.9.2012 University of California at Berkeley; lecture co-sponsored by the Office for History of Science and Technology and the Working Group in History and Philosophy of Logic, Mathematics, and Science
"Wittgenstein and Einstein"
25.-28.9.2012 Feyerabend Conference in Berlin (pending funding decision of the DFG)
September 2012 Talk at the Hungarian Academy, Budapest
November 2012: CamPoS-EPS meeting, Department of Philosophy, University of Cambridge:
"Philosophy and the Social Sciences: the Wittgensteinian Tradition (from the
1930s to the 2010s)"
February 2013: Three lectures in Bergen (Norway)
14.-16.3.2013: Conference on “Dimensions of Measurement”, Bielefeld / Darmstadt
4.-6.4.2013 Meeting at the Humboldt Unversity in Berlin on "Was bedeutet der aktuellen Philosophie ihre Geschichte? Methodologische Perspektiven"
15.-19.4.2013 Dubrovnik Meeting on Philosophy of Mathematics, Colour and the Philosophy of the Social Sciences
26.4.2013 Keynote Lecture at UCD Dublin Workshop on Wittgenstein
February 2014 "Objectivity" Conference in Taiwan
Contact Information
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| Address: | Department of Philosophy |
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Phone (office): +43-1-4277-47622 Fax (office): +43-1-4277-46420 |
| IM: | Skype: kusch.martin (Location: Vienna, Austria) |
