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13482Nietzsche on Free WillIn M. Griffith, N. Levy & K. Timpe (eds.), Routledge Companion to Free Will, Routledge. 2016.
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7382Nietzsche’s Critique of Kant’s Thing in ItselfNietzsche Studien 39 (1): 333-351. 2010.This paper investigates the argument that substantiates Nietzsche's refusal of teh Kantian concept of thing in itself. As Maudmarie Clark points out, Nietzsche dismisses this notion because he views it as self-contradictory. The main concern of the paper will be to account for this position. In particular, the two main theses defended here are that the argument underlying Nietzsche's claim is that the concept of thing in itself amounts to the inconsistent idea of a propertyless thing and that th…Read more
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4318Nietzsche's SensualismEuropean Journal of Philosophy 21 (2): 219-257. 2011.The late Nietzsche defended a position which he sometimes to refers as ‘sensualism’ and which consists of two main theses: senses ‘do not lie’ (T1) and sense organs are ‘causes’ (T2). Two influential interpretations of this position have been proposed by Clark and Hussain, who also address the question whether Nietzsche's late sensualism is (Hussain) or not (Clark) compatible with the epistemological view which he held in his previous work and which has been dubbed the ‘falsification thesis’ (FT…Read more
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1454Inner Opacity. Nietzsche on Introspection and AgencyInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 58 (3): 221-243. 2015.Nietzsche believes that we do not know our own actions, nor their real motives. This belief, however, is but a consequence of his assuming a quite general skepticism about introspection. The main aim of this paper is to offer a reading of this last view, which I shall call the Inner Opacity (IO) view. In the first part of the paper I show that a strong motivation behind IO lies in Nietzsche’s claim that self-knowledge exploits the same set of cognitive capacities as well as the same folk-psychol…Read more
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1384Nietzsche on the Superficiality of ConsciousnessIn Manuel Dries (ed.), Nietzsche on consciousness and the embodied mind, De Gruyter. pp. 93-112. 2018.Abstract: Nietzsche’s famously wrote that “consciousness is a surface” (EH, Why I am so clever, 9: 97). The aim of this paper is to make sense of this quite puzzling contention—Superficiality, for short. In doing this, I shall focus on two further claims—both to be found in Gay Science 354—which I take to substantiate Nietzsche’s endorsement of Superficiality. The first claim is that consciousness is superfluous—which I call the “superfluousness claim” (SC). The second claim is that consciousnes…Read more
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1209Virtuous Homunculi: Nietzsche on the Order of DrivesInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 61 (1): 21-41. 2018.The primary explanatory items of Nietzsche’s philosophical psychology are the drives. Such drives, he holds, are arranged hierarchically in virtue of their entering dominance-obedience relations analogous to those obtaining in human societies. This view is puzzling for two reasons. First, Nietzsche’s idea of a hierarchical order among the drives is far from clear. Second, as it postulates relations among subpersonal items that mimic those among persons, Nietzsche’s view seems to trade on the hom…Read more
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867Nietzsche's Pluralism about ConsciousnessBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 24 (1): 132-154. 2016.In this paper I argue that Nietzsche's view on consciousness is best captured by distinguishing different notions of consciousness. In other words, I propose that Nietzsche should be read as endorsing pluralism about consciousness. First, I consider the notion that is preeminent in his work and argue that the only kind of consciousness which may fit the characterization Nietzsche provides of this dominant notion is self-consciousness. Second, I argue that in light of Nietzsche's treatment of per…Read more
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525Nietzsche on the Embodiment of Mind and SelfIn João Constâncio (ed.), Nietzsche and the Problem of Subjectivity, De Gruyter. pp. 533-549. 2015.
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500Max Scheler, Cousin of DisjunctivismPhenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences 15 (3): 443-454. 2016.Disjunctivism has triggered an intense discussion about the nature of perceptual experience. A question in its own right concerns possible historical antecedents of the position. So far, Frege and Husserl are the most prominent names that have been mentioned in this regard. In my paper I shall argue that Max Scheler deserves a particularly relevant place in the genealogy of disjunctivism for three main reasons. First, Scheler’s view of perceptual experience is distinctively disjunctivist, as he …Read more
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463Perceptual Presence: an Attentional AccountSynthese 196 (7): 2907-2926. 2019.It is a distinctive mark of normal conscious perception that perceived objects are experienced as actually present in one’s surroundings. The aim of this paper is to offer a phenomenologically accurate and empirically plausible account of the cognitive underpinning of this feature of conscious perception, which I shall call perceptual presence. The paper begins with a preliminary characterization of. I then consider and criticize the seminal account of proposed by Mohan Matthen. In the remainder…Read more
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423Nietzschean Monism? A Pandispositionalist ProposalThe Monist 104 (1): 108-124. 2021.I argue that Nietzsche puts forward a pandispositionalist view that can be seen as the conjunction of two basic claims: that powers are the basic constituents of reality, on the one hand, and that the only properties things possess are relational qua dispositional, on the other hand. As I believe that such a view is, at least in part, motivated by his rejection of Kant’s notion of things in themselves, I start by sketching the metaphysics of Kant’s transcendental idealism and by presenting Nietz…Read more
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197Kommentar zu Nietzsches Zur Genealogie der Moral. (Historischer und kritischer Kommentar zu Friedrich Nietzsches Werken. Band 5/2), by Andreas Urs Sommer (review)Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 103 (2): 369-372. 2021.
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63Psychological Nihilism, Passions, and Neglected Works: Three Topics for Nietzsche StudiesJournal of Nietzsche Studies 49 (2): 266-271. 2018.This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2, in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The editorship hopes this collection will provide a starting point …Read more
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41The Nietzschean Self: Moral Psychology, Agency, and the Unconscious, by Paul Katsafanas (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 48 (3): 449-457. 2017.
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25Nietzsche's Philosophical PsychologyOxford University Press. 2021.This book offers a systematic account of Nietzsche's thought on the human mind. A central theme is the nature of and relation between the unconscious and conscious mind, relating Nietzsche's work to contemporary debates about consciousness and theory of mind.
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17Plato and Nietzsche on the Ideal SoulJournal of Nietzsche Studies 55 (1): 27-48. 2024.Nietzsche scholars have remarked on the similarities between his conception of the ideal soul and that of Plato. This article provides a systematic examination of this issue. The first part of the article demonstrates that there is in fact a substantive convergence between their views. However, this result is puzzling given that Nietzsche accuses Plato’s moral psychology of being deeply ascetic. Thus, the second part of the article focuses on this charge. Though the textual evidence provided by …Read more
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16Nietzsche vs. Kant? Der siebzehnte Aphorismus aus dem ersten Teil von Menschliches, Allzumenschliches schliesst mit der korrosiven Bemerkung, das Ding an sich [sei] eines homerischen Gelachters werth. Aufgrund dieser Passage nun aber zu vermuten, Nietzsche habe diesen von Kant stammenden Terminus einfach so ad acta gelegt, ware jedoch ubereilt, denn die Auseinandersetzung mit der Unterscheidung zwischen Erscheinung und Ding an sich lasst sich als Konstante durch Nietzsches gesamtes Werk verfolge…Read more
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14Materialien zur Entstehung der Morgenröthe: Nietzsches Lektüre von Alfons Bilharz, Der heliocentrische Standpunct der WeltbetrachtungNietzsche Studien (1973) 36 (1): 380-394. 2007.
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12Nachweis aus Otto Liebmann, Zur Analysis der WirklichkeitNietzsche Studien 35 (1): 302-303. 2006.
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11Nachweise aus Gustav Teichmüller, Die wirkliche und die scheinbare WeltNietzsche Studien (1973) 38 (1): 331-332. 2009.
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11Sameness beyond Numerical Identity. A Defence of the One Object View of Kant´s Transcendental IdealismSynthese 201 (5): 1-17. 2023.Some Kant scholars argue that appearances and things in themselves are distinct things (Two Objects View). Others argue that they are the same things (One Object View). This last view is often understood as the claim that appearances and things in themselves are numerically identical (Numerical Identity). However, Walker (2010) and Stang (2014) show that Numerical Identity clashes against Kant’s claim that we lack knowledge of things in themselves (Noumenal Ignorance). I propose a weaker version…Read more
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10Materialien zur Entstehung der Morgenröthe. Nietzsches Lektüre Von Alfons bilharz, Der Heliocentrische Standpunct der WeltbetrachtungNietzsche Studien 36 (1): 380-394. 2007.
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10Nietzsches Philosophie des Unbewussten, by Jutta Georg & Claus Zittel, eds. (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (2): 225-227. 2014.
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8Nachweis aus Friedrich Überweg, Grundriss der Geschichte der Philosophie von Thales bis auf die Gegenwart. Dritter Theil. Die NeuzeitNietzsche Studien (1973) 38 (1): 323. 2009.
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5Nachweis aus Alfons Bilharz, Der heliocentrische Standpunct der Weltbetrachtung (1879)Nietzsche Studien 52 (1): 375-375. 2023.
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Philosophy of Mind |
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19th Century Philosophy |
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