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3The Virtue of Shame: Defending Nietzsche’s critique of MitleidIn Gudrun von Tevenar (ed.), Nietzsche and Ethics, Peter Lang Verlag. 2007.I argue that moral intuitions about Nietzsche as an exemplar of practical cruelty can be overturned. My argument is based upon the possibility of abandoning the notion of pure and unmediated passivity as intrinsic to the phenomena of human suffering and of Mitleid, as identified by Nietzsche. I claim that wrongly identifying intrinsic passivity in the phenomenology of Mitleid and of suffering generates the moral sceptical intuition. Once this case of mistaken identity is uncovered, 1 suggest, th…Read more
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1Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the FleshIn Duncan Large & Nicholas Martin (eds.), Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”, De Gruyter. 2021.
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49Reconsidering Risk to Women: Oocyte Donation for Human Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (9): 37-39. 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 9, Page 37-39, September 2011
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21Getting Even More Specific About Physicians' Obligations: Justice, Responsibility, and ProfessionalismAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (9): 46-47. 2014.(2014). Getting Even More Specific About Physicians’ Obligations: Justice, Responsibility, and Professionalism. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 14, No. 9, pp. 46-47
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72Nietzsche, science, and philosophical nihilismSouth African Journal of Philosophy 24 (4): 241-259. 2005.Nietzsche offers us a critique of modern culture as threatened by a nihilistic crisis in values. Philosophy is specifically incorporated into Nietzsche's critique, resulting in the claim that modern philosophy, as well as modern culture, is nihilistic. But why should contemporary philosophers give this view credence? In this paper, I put forward some reasons to take Nietzsche's view seriously, focusing on the relationship between science and philosophy. I suggest that modern philosophy still ten…Read more
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23Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of KnowledgeWiley-Blackwell. 2020.This unique book explores Nietzsche’s philosophy at the time of Dawn’s writing and discusses the modern relevance of themes such as fear, superstition, terror, and moral and religious fanaticism. The authors highlight Dawn’s links with key areas of philosophical inquiry, such as “the art of living well,” skepticism, and naturalism. The book begins by introducing Dawn and discussing how to read Nietzsche, his literary and philosophical influences, his relation to German philosophy, and his effort…Read more
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3Nietzsche's aestheticism and the value of sufferingIn Paul Bishop & Roger H. Stephenson (eds.), Cultural studies and the symbolic: occasional papers in Cassirer and cultural theory studies, presented at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies, Northern Universities Press. 2003.
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41A Paradoxical Ethical Framework for Unpredictable Drug ShortagesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (1). 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 16-18, January 2012
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2Just how cognitive is emotion? The continuing importance of the philosophy of emotion in enhancement ethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 4 (1): 18-19. 2013.
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29The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38 (1): 95-99. 2009.Book review.
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19The liberatory limits of Nietzsche’s colonial imagination in Dawn §206In Manuel Knoll & Barry Stocker (eds.), Nietzsche as Political Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 59-76. 2014.
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44Biophysical models of human behavior: Is there a place for logicAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (3): 70-72. 2011.We present a two-pronged criticism of Ramos's argument. Our main contention is that the logic of the author’s argument is flawed. As we demonstrate, the author conflates probability with necessity, in addition to conflating free will having causal efficacy with the merely illusory conscious experience of free will; such conflations undermine the claim that individual free will should be both exhibited on a social scale and necessarily cause a particular organized pattern to emerge. In addition, …Read more
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87Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1): 138-140. 2013.Jessica Berry provides the first detailed analysis of whether, and in what sense, Nietzsche was a skeptic (5). Exploring the affinity between Nietzsche’s work and Pyrrhonism in six main chapters, Berry differentiates between modern skepticism, understood as epistemological pessimism or nihilism (33), and Pyrrhonian skepticism as a commitment to continuing inquiry, based on the equipollence of arguments, “roughly equal persuasive weight for and against just about any claim,” and epochē, suspensio…Read more
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34Cultural Diversity, Families, and Research SubjectsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (5): 33-34. 2011.
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Queen's University, BelfastSchool of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and PoliticsRegular Faculty
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19th Century Philosophy |
European Philosophy |
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Nietzsche: Dawn |