Psychological Knowledge

Martin Kusch is Lecturer in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He is also the author of Psychologism, Foucault’s Strata and Fields and Language as Calculus vs. Language as the Universal Medium.

• Introduction PART I A social history of psychological knowledge: the controversy over thought psychology in Germany, 1900–20 Introduction to Part I 1 The Würzburgers 2 Friends and foes 3 Recluse or drillmaster versus interlocutor and interrogator 4 Purist versus promiscuist 5 Collectivist versus individualist 6 Protestant versus Catholic 7 Conclusions PART II The sociophilosophy of folk psychology Introduction to Part II 8 The folk psychology debate 9 Folk psychology as a social institution

'This work is a model of clarity ... It is written by an author fully in command of his material, seeking to advance debate by serious engagement with much serious literature.' - History of Psychiatry