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7348A discussion of Nietzsche's philology as the prelude to his philosophy of science.
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4523On the analytic-continental divide in philosophy : Nietzsche's lying truth, Heidegger's speaking language, and philosophyIn C. G. Prado (ed.), A House Divided: Comparing Analytic and Continental Philosophy, Humanity Books. 2003.On the political nature of the analytic - continental distinction in professional philosophy and the general tendency to discredit continental philosophy while redesignating the rubric as analytically conceived.
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3188Heidegger’s Will to PowerJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 38 (1): 37-60. 2007.On Heidegger's Beitraege and the influence of Nietzsche's Will to Power (a famous non-book).
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2696Continental Philosophy of ScienceIn Constantin Boundas (ed.), The Edinburgh Companion to the Twentieth Century Philosophies. Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh Press. pp. 545--558. 2007.Continental philosophies of science tend to exemplify holistic themes connecting order and contingency, questions and answers, writers and readers, speakers and hearers. Such philosophies of science also tend to feature a fundamental emphasis on the historical and cultural situatedness of discourse as significant; relevance of mutual attunement of speaker and hearer; necessity of pre-linguistic cognition based in human engagement with a common socio-cultural historical world; role of narrative a…Read more
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2429Greek Bronze: Holding a Mirror to LifeYearbook of the Irish Philosophical Society. 7 1-30. 2007.Explores the role of the thousands of life-size bronze statues "populating" Athens, Rhode, Olympia and other Greek cities. Applied phenomenological hermeneutics.
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2073‘A Philosophical Shock’: Foucault’s Reading of Heidegger and NietzscheIn Carlos G. Prado (ed.), Foucault's Legacy, Continuum. 2009.
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927Gay Science: Science and Wissenschaft, Leidenschaft and MusicIn Keith Ansell-Pearson (ed.), Gay Science: Science and Wissenschaft, Leidenschaft and Music., Blackwell. 2006.On Nietzsche, science, the oral tradition -- or the troubadours and ancient Greek music drama.
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757On Mitchell and on Glazebrook on βίοςIn Pol Vandevelde (ed.), Supplement to the 2011 Proceedings of the Heidegger Circle, . 2011.Commentary on Andrew Mitchell and Patricia Glazebrook on plants and agriculture in the context of Heidegger's own reflections on botany and technology in which I discuss, bees, cell phone radiation, the relatively complex but fairly obvious sociological dynamics of science and powerful commercial interests (capital), and mantid copulation.
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549Heidegger & Nietzsche (edited book)BRILL. 2012.This volume contains new and original papers on Martin Heidegger’s complex relation to Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy. The authors not only critically discuss the many aspects of Heidegger’s reading of Nietzsche, they also interpret Heidegger’s thought from a Nietzschean perspective. Here is presented for the first time an overview of not only Heidegger’s and Nietzsche’s philosophy but also an overview of what is alive – and dead – in their thinking. Many authors through a reading of Heidegger…Read more
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501Radio ghosts: Phenomenology’s phantoms and digital autismThesis Eleven 153 (1): 57-74. 2019.Günther Anders offers one of the first phenomenological analyses of broadcast radio and its transformation of the contemporary experience of music. Anders also develops a reflection on its political consequences as he continues his reflection in a discussion of radio and newsreel, film and television in his 1956 ‘The World as Phantom and Matrix’. A reflection on the consequences of this transformation brings in Friedrich Kittler’s reflection on radio and precision bombing. A further reflection o…Read more
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500Musical “Covers” and the Culture IndustryResearch in Phenomenology 48 (3): 385-407. 2018.This essay foregrounds “covers” of popular recorded songs as well as male and female desire, in addition to Nietzsche’s interest in composition, together with his rhythmic analysis of Ancient Greek as the basis of what he called the “spirit of music” with respect to tragedy. The language of “sonic branding” allows a discussion of what Günther Anders described as the self-creation of mass consumer but also the ghostly time-space of music in the broadcast world. A brief allusion to Rilke complemen…Read more
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487Ivan Illich’s Medical Nemesis and the ‘age of the show’: On the Expropriation of DeathNursing Philosophy 19 (1). 2018.What Ivan Illich regarded in his Medical Nemesis as the ‘expropriation of health’ takes place on the surfaces and in the spaces of the screens all around us, including our cell phones but also the patient monitors and (increasingly) the iPads that intervene between nurse and patient. To explore what Illich called the ‘age of the show’, this essay uses film examples, like Creed and the controversial documentary Vaxxed, and the television series Nurse Jackie. Rocky’s cancer in his last film (submi…Read more
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481Signatures and Taste: Hume’s Mortal Leavings and LucianIn Babette E. Babich (ed.), Reading David Hume’s » Of the Standard of Taste «, De Gruyter. pp. 3-22. 2019.
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457The genealogy of morals and right reading: On the Nietzschean aphorism and the art of the polemicIn Christa Davis Acampora (ed.), Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morals: Critical Essays, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 177-190. 2006.This essay is dedicated to elaborating some of the stylistic elements at work in Nietzsche's polemical book, On The Genealogy of Morals with particular attention to the nature of the aphorism from its inception in ancient Greek literaure, Nietzsche's specific deployment of the aphorism as such, including Nietzsche's argument structure and rhetorical technique as well as the language of Greek and Jewish antiquity, master and slave. In: Christa Davis Acampora, ed., Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of…Read more
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295Gadamer, la belleza y la improvisación musicalBoletín de Estética (63): 7-78. 2023.Resumen: En La actualidad de lo bello, Gadamer hace una referencia reveladora a la improvisación musical y a la importancia de la escucha musical, además de poner en primer plano la necesidad de justificación del arte. Situando este debate a través de Goethe y Platón, junto con las Lecciones de Estética de Adorno de finales de la década de 1950 y una discusión sobre Nietzsche y la Antigüedad, es posible establecer que lo que está en juego es la afinación, así como una tensión que invita a un deb…Read more
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282Nietzsche and Eros between the devil and God's deep blue sea: The problem of the artist as actor-jew-womanContinental Philosophy Review 33 (2): 159-188. 2000.In a single aphorism in The Gay Science, Nietzsche arrays “The Problem of the Artist” in a reticulated constellation. Addressing every member of the excluded grouping of disenfranchised “others,” Nietzsche turns to the destitution of a god of love keyed to the selfturning absorption of the human heart. His ultimate and irrecusably tragic project to restore the innocence of becoming requires the affirmation of the problem of suffering as the task of learning how to love. Nietzsche sees the eros o…Read more
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193Nietzsche (as) educatorEducational Philosophy and Theory 51 (9): 871-885. 2019.There has been no shortage of readers who take Nietzsche as educator (cf., for a by no means exhaustive list: Allen, 2017; Aviram, 1991; Bell, 2007; Cooper 1983; Fairfield, 2017; Fitzsimons, 2007;...
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190Nietzsche’s Zarathustra and Parodic Style: On Lucian’s Hyperanthropos and Nietzsche’s ÜbermenschDiogenes 58 (4): 58-74. 2011.
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142From Fleck's denkstil to Kuhn's paradigm: Conceptual schemes and incommensurabilityInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 17 (1). 2003.This article argues that the limited influence of Ludwik Fleck's ideas on philosophy of science is due not only to their indirect dissemination by way of Thomas Kuhn, but also to an incommensurability between the standard conceptual framework of history and philosophy of science and Fleck's own more integratedly historico-social and praxis-oriented approach to understanding the evolution of scientific discovery. What Kuhn named "paradigm" offers a periphrastic rendering or oblique translation of…Read more
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98Words in Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy and Poetry, Music and Eros in Holderlin, Nietzsche, and HeideggerState University of New York Press. 2006._A philosophical exploration of the power that poetry, music, and the erotic have on us._
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88Kuhn's paradigm as a parable for the cold war: Incommensurability and its discontents from Fuller's tale of Harvard to Fleck's unsung lvovSocial Epistemology 17 (2 & 3). 2003.This Article does not have an abstract
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86This essay revisits Meyer Schapiro’s critique of Heidegger’s interpretation of Van Gogh’s painting of a pair of shoes in order to raise the question of the dispute between art history and philosophy as a contest increasingly ceded to the claim of the expert and the hegemony of the museum as culture and as cult or coded signifier. Following a discussion of museum culture, I offer a hermeneutic and phenomenological reading of Heidegger’s ‘Origin of the Work of Art’ and conclude by taking Heidegger…Read more
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85Jaspers, Heidegger, and Arendt: On Politics, Science, and CommunicationExistenz 4 (1): 1-19. 2009.Heidegger's 1950 claim to Jaspers (later repeated in his Spiegel interview), that his Nietzsche lectures represented a "resistance" to Nazism is premised on the understanding that he and Jaspers have of the place of science in the Western world. Thus Heidegger can emphasize Nietzsche's epistemology, parsing Nietzsche's will to power, contra Nazi readings, as the metaphysical culmination of the domination of the West by scientism and technologism. It is in this sense that Heidegger argues that Ge…Read more
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85Calling Science Pseudoscience: Fleck's Archaeologies of Fact and Latour's ‘Biography of an Investigation’ in AIDS Denialism and HomeopathyInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 29 (1): 1-39. 2015.Fleck's Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact foregrounds claims traditionally excluded from reception, often regarded as opposed to fact, scientific claims that are increasingly seldom discussed in connection with philosophy of science save as examples of pseudoscience. I am especially concerned with scientists who question the epidemiological link between HIV and AIDS and who are thereby discounted—no matter their credentials, no matter the cogency of their arguments, no matter the sobr…Read more
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82Heidegger on technology and Gelassenheit: wabi-sabi and the art of VerfallenheitAI and Society 32 (2): 157-166. 2017.
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74Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science: Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and LifeState University of New York Press. 1994.
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72On Nietzsche's Judgment of Style and Hume's Quixotic Taste: On the Science of Aesthetics and "Playing" the SatyrJournal of Nietzsche Studies 43 (2): 240-259. 2012."Homer and Classical Philology," Nietzsche's 1869 inaugural lecture at the University of Basel, addresses not only the history of the Homer question as a problem but also raises the question of the discipline of classical philology as science . Thematically, Nietzsche's first lecture as a professor of classical philology focuses on the significance of style as such. In this meta-scholarly context, the issue of scholarly discernment is explored in terms of aesthetic judgment, as a judgment of tas…Read more
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72Adorno on Nihilism and Modern Science, Animals, and JewsSymposium 15 (1): 110-145. 2011.Adorno, no less than Heidegger or Nietzsche, had his own critical notions of truth/untruth. But Adorno’s readers are unsettled by the barest hint of anything that might be taken to be antiscience. To protest scientism, yes and to be sure, but to protest “scientific thought,” decidedly not, and the distinction is to be maintained even if Adorno himself challenged it. For Adorno, so-called “scientistic” tendencies are the very “conditions of society and of scientific thought.” And again, Adorno’s …Read more
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70Towards a Critical Philosophy of Science: Continental Beginnings and Bugbears, Whigs, and WaterbearsInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 24 (4): 343-391. 2010.Continental philosophy of science has developed alongside mainstream analytic philosophy of science. But where continental approaches are inclusive, analytic philosophies of science are not–excluding not merely Nietzsche’s philosophy of science but Gödel’s philosophy of physics. As a radicalization of Kant, Nietzsche’s critical philosophy of science puts science in question and Nietzsche’s critique of the methodological foundations of classical philology bears on science, particularly evolution …Read more
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