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43Frege's attempt to provide a foundation for the possibility of language and communication, like Kant's attempt to provide a foundation for the possibility of knowledge, fails to provide us with something absolute and foundational in a fixed sense. However, both these philosophers succeed in showing something about necessity that can be preserved independently of their absolutisms. Part III of this paper will provide reasons for accepting this thesis, while Parts I and II will provide an exposit…Read more
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72Applied Nietzsche: the problem of reflexivity in Habermas, a postmodern critiqueAuslegung 19 (1): 1-21. 1993.
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295Nietzsche, Emancipation, and TruthNew Nietzsche Studies 2 (Fall/Winter): 85-109. 1997.Nietzsche has been accused by Habermas of abandoning the pursuit of emancipation and truth. Ironically, this pursuit is at the core of Nietzsche’s works, though radically transformed. The pursuit of knowledge requires emancipated sovereign individuality, a severe honesty, and the courage to follow one's most rigorous use of reason and creative insight wherever they may lead, including the most disturbing insights about truth, language and reason themselves. The first part of this paper discus…Read more
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Nietzsche, Transformation and PostmodernismDissertation, The Claremont Graduate University. 1992.Guiding questions in this dissertation: Does indeterminacy of interpretation imply no standards and limits of meaning? Is Nietzsche "modern" or "postmodern" in his approach to this and other problems? What is Nietzsche's "affirmative" message? What are the implications for the identity and future of philosophy? ;If Nietzsche has freed the signifier from any transcendental signified, how do we know when the free play of reading has utterly departed from the text? How do we recognize that one read…Read more
Claremont Graduate University
PhD, 1992
Berkeley, CA, United States of America
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History of Western Philosophy |
Philosophical Traditions |
Philosophy, Misc |
Metaphysics and Epistemology |
Value Theory |
Science, Logic, and Mathematics |