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14Nietzsche and Politicized Identities (edited book)State University of New York Press. 2024.Essays exploring to what extent Nietzsche's thought can aid us in understanding politicized identities.
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10Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality: A Critical Introduction and Guide (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 54 (2): 209-213. 2023.We are, as Nietzsche tells us in the Preface to GM, “strangers to ourselves” (GM P:1). The particular shape of this self-estrangement is not, as Nietzsche makes plain, the product of simple neglect; nor is it the result of some lack of ability or competence. Indeed, in Nietzsche’s view, the very disciplines of philosophy, history, and psychology, for example, show us that we are at once eager and capable when it comes to taking ourselves as objects of inquiry. Hence, the aspect of self-estrangem…Read more
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8Nietzsche’s Metaphilosophy: The Nature, Method, and Aims of Philosophy, edited by Paul S. Loeb and Matthew Meyer (review)Mind 132 (525): 269-277. 2023.In his later works Nietzsche repeatedly underscores the importance of philosophical methods. In Beyond Good and Evil, for example, he takes issue with the ‘awkw.
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10The Rise of Politics and Morality in Nietzsche's Genealogy: From Chaos to Conscience by Jeffrey Metzger (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 60 (2): 353-354. 2022.It is commonplace to note that there are distinctive questions to be found in the domain of political philosophy, queries as to how or why the state and society emerge or about how power should be exercised in society. Yet whether Nietzsche has a set of cogent answers to these sorts of questions is, of course, a contested matter. Jeffrey Metzger's The Rise of Politics and Morality in Nietzsche's Genealogy: From Chaos to Conscience answers in the affirmative. In offering a detailed and section-by…Read more
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29Concerning the psychological type of the redeemer: Nietzsche on the methods of philosophyEuropean Journal of Philosophy 31 (1): 151-162. 2022.In section 24 of The Antichrist, Nietzsche notes a problem namely “the origin of Christianity.” He offers two propositions toward its solution: the first is that “Christianity can only be understood on the soil where it grew:” and the second is that “the psychological type of the Galilean is still recognizable, but it had to assume a completely degenerate form (simultaneously mutilated and full of alien features) before it came to be used as a redeemer of humanity” (A 24). Significantly this pas…Read more
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9“What Renders Our Sores Repugnant”: Reconsidering Nietzsche on RessentimentIn Marco Brusotti, Michael J. McNeal, Corinna Schubert & Herman Siemens (eds.), European/Supra-European: Cultural Encounters in Nietzsche's Philosophy, De Gruyter. pp. 117-128. 2020.
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23The Curricular Ethics BowlTeaching Ethics 17 (2): 151-165. 2017.Responding to research indicating unsettling results with regard to the ability of University students to recognize and reflect on questions of morality, this paper aims to discuss these issues and to introduce a promising mode of ethics instruction for overcoming such challenges. The Curricular Ethics Bowl (CEB) is a method of ethics education and assessment for a wide range of students and is a descendent of the Medical Ethics Bowl (MEB) (Merrick et al., “Introducing the Medical Ethics Bowl”).…Read more
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29Review of “The Death of God and the Meaning of Life” (review)Essays in Philosophy 8 (1): 15. 2007.
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62Of Genealogy and Transcendent CritiqueJournal of Nietzsche Studies 47 (2): 228-237. 2016.In a well-known passage of the Preface to On the Genealogy of Morals Nietzsche makes audible a “new demand”: namely, that “we need a critique of moral values, the value of these values themselves must be called into question—and for that there is needed a knowledge of the conditions and circumstances in which they grew, under which they changed and evolved”.1 Here Nietzsche is relatively clear. We need an understanding of the historical conditions under which our moral values have changed in ord…Read more
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43The Curricular Ethics Bowl in advanceTeaching Ethics. 2017.Responding to research indicating unsettling results with regard to the ability of University students to recognize and reflect on questions of morality, this paper aims to discuss these issues and to introduce a promising mode of ethics instruction for overcoming such challenges. The Curricular Ethics Bowl (CEB) is a method of ethics education and assessment for a wide range of students and is a descendent of the Medical Ethics Bowl (MEB) (Merrick et al., “Introducing the Medical Ethics Bowl”).…Read more
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52On the Role of History in Nietzsche’s GenealogySouthwest Philosophy Review 30 (2): 101-120. 2014.
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30Contesting the Audience of Nietzsche’s GenealogySouthwest Philosophy Review 30 (1): 85-92. 2014.
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56The subject of this thesis is Friedrich Nietzsche’s methodology, the genealogical mode of inquiry, which came to fruition in On the Genealogy of Morals. The precise nature of the genealogy, as a mode of inquiry, is a site of contest amongst scholars, with the central debates pivoting around four questions which arise upon considering the methodology: what is the critical import of Nietzsche’s genealogical mode of inquiry? What form of critique does it take? To whom does Nietzsche address his ref…Read more
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1057Introducing the Medical Ethics BowlCambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 25 (1): 141-149. 2016.Although ethics is an essential component of undergraduate medical education, research suggests current medical ethics curricula face considerable challenges in improving students’ ethical reasoning. This paper discusses these challenges and introduces a promising new mode of graduate and professional ethics instruction for overcoming them. We begin by describing common ethics curricula, focusing in particular on established problems with current approaches. Next, we describe a novel method of e…Read more
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723History in the Service of Life: Nietzsche's 'Genealogy'In S. Campbell & P. Bruno (eds.), The Science, Politics, and Ontology of Life-Philosophy, Bloomsbury Academic. 2013.
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38Nietzsche and the Necessity of Freedom by John Mandalios (review) (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (1): 132-134. 2013.It is widely assumed that there may be a tension in Nietzsche’s views concerning freedom. In particular, Nietzsche seems to deny certain views of free will (GM I:13) and warns against “the hundred-times-refuted theory of ‘free will’” (BGE 18). Nevertheless, he also appears to admire the sovereign individual––“the man who has his own independent, protracted will,” “this master of a free will” (GM II:2)––as well as those who have forged a “free spirit” (GS 347). John Mandalios’s Nietzsche and the …Read more
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357How Not to Affirm One's Life: Nietzsche and the Paradoxical Task of Life AffirmationHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 33 (1): 63-78. 2016.
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14A Paradox of Hope? Toward a Feminist Approach to PalliationInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 9 (1): 104-120. 2016.Prognostication has something of a rich and distinguished history. Hippocrates, for instance, suggests that “the best physician is the one who has the providence to tell to the patients according to his knowledge the present situation, what has happened before, and what is going to happen in the future”. In Hippocrates’s estimation, the truly exceptional physician is one who is able to forecast competently the outcome of a disease or other medical condition and effectively communicate that infor…Read more
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