•  2
    The Naturalisms of Beyond Good and Evil
    In Keith Ansell Pearson (ed.), A Companion to Nietzsche, Blackwell. 2006.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Beyond Good and Evil and the “Magnificent Tension of the Spirit” The Unveiled Truth: Preface to The Gay Science Beyond Good and Evil's “Tension of the Spirit” as it Appears in Gay Science 371 and 372 Gay Science 373 and 374: Values and Intentionality Spir's Relevance to Gay Science 373 and 374 Gay Science 374, in Light of Spir The Unveiled Truth, Revisited.
  •  1
    Nietzsche's Doctrines of the Will to Power
    In Mazzino Montinari, Wolfgang Müller-Lauter, Heinz Wenzel, Günter Abel & Werner Stegmaier (eds.), Nietzsche-Studien (1983), De Gruyter. pp. 458-468. 1982.
  •  138
    Book Notes (review)
    with Alison Bailey, Jan M. Boxill, Emmett L. Bradbury, Samir J. Haddad, and Colin M. Patrick
    Ethics 113 (4): 923-928. 2003.
    It's surprising that contemporary moral philosophers have not thought more about food. The rapidly expanding industrialized landscape of modern western agribusiness raises moral concerns about large-scale livestock production, the increased usage of genetically modified crops, and the effects these now common practices may have on long-term environmental and human health. Here Pence argues that biotechnology is more helpful than harmful, on the ground that it will abate world hunger. Positioning…Read more
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    What Is Consciousness and Does Nietzsche Really Think It Is Unimportant?
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 54 (1): 1-21. 2023.
    What does Nietzsche mean by consciousness, and does he really consider it unimportant? And if he doesn’t, why does he make so many disparaging remarks about it? In this article the author considers and rejects Mattia Riccardi’s recent claim that Gay Science (GS) 354, Nietzsche’s most important passage on consciousness, is concerned only with reflective or Rconsciousness. The article shows that GS 354 attempts to explain why mental states ever became conscious, not Rconscious. Nietzsche accepts “…Read more
  •  4
    Nietzsche on Democracy and Culture
    In Martin A. Ruehl & Corinna Schubert (eds.), Nietzsches Perspektiven des Politischen, De Gruyter. pp. 131-160. 2022.
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    The Good of Community
    In Nietzsche on Ethics and Politics, Oxford University Press. pp. 184-202. 2015.
    This chapter argues against a new and perhaps more benign way of classifying Nietzsche as a political conservative. It also adds to the argument that even though Nietzsche is seen as more leftist than he appears, he is not an egalitarian. It does so by making an extended and detailed case against Julian Young’s claim that the flourishing of the community is Nietzsche’s highest value. The final section suggests that Nietzsche’s view might nevertheless be able to accommodate richer notions of comm…Read more
  •  61
    Perspectivism and Falsification Revisited: Nietzsche, Nehamas, and Me
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49 (1): 3-30. 2018.
    I remember well my initial reaction when Nietzsche: Life as Literature appeared in 1985.1 I was busy working on my own book on Nietzsche and I was worried that Nehamas had already said everything I wanted to say in it. We were dealing with the same problem: the apparently problematic, even paradoxical nature of Nietzsche's perspectivism and his position on truth. And our aim was the same: to show that this position was plausible, perhaps even reasonable, and at least worthy of serious considerat…Read more
  •  16
    Richard Schacht's Nietzsche
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (2): 177-185. 2015.
    ABSTRACT In this article, written for a panel presentation celebrating the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of Richard Schacht's Nietzsche, I examine the perspective from which Schacht wrote his 1983 book. That perspective, I argue, accounts for many virtues of the book, including Schacht's convincing treatment of Nietzsche as a philosopher who deserved to be taken seriously and, in its amazing thoroughness, his demonstration that Nietzsche's thought could be organized using the sort of …Read more
  •  44
    Defending Nietzsche's Soul
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 45 (3): 331-355. 2014.
    We thank our four reviewers for their careful attention to our book on Beyond Good and Evil and for the high praise they bestow on it.1 We welcome especially Helmut Heit’s claim that our book “truly represents the erotic spirit of philosophical agōn” . Heit says of our book what we said of BGE, that it “challenges the readers to ‘fight back’” . We appreciate our critics’ participation in the agōn—even if we sometimes wished they were a little more erotic about it!2 It is now our turn to respond …Read more
  •  20
    Simply Nietzsche (review)
    with Andrew Winer
    The Philosophers' Magazine 91 115-118. 2020.
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    Nietzsche’s Nihilism
    The Monist 102 (3): 369-385. 2019.
    I am going to begin by quoting something Nietzsche said about nihilism in The Will to Power, which is not a book that Nietzsche wrote. It is a set of notes, selected and arranged by his sister and her chosen editors, from the notebooks he carried with him in which to jot down his thoughts as he walked in the woods and around the lakes of the Swiss Alps. I mention this because I normally eschew use of Nietzsche’s notebook for interpreting his philosophy. But in the case of nihilism, I find this i…Read more
  •  1
    Nietzsche on the Will: An Analysis of BGE 19
    In Ken Gemes & Simon May (eds.), Nietzsche on Freedom and Autonomy, Oxford University Press. 2009.
  • Nietzsche's Doctrines of the Will to Power
    In John Richardson & Brian Leiter (eds.), Nietzsche, Oxford University Press. 2001.
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    Nietzsche: Old and New Questions
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49 (2): 228-233. 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
  •  1
    Nietzsche's Doctrines of the Will to Power
    Nietzsche Studien 12 (n/a): 458. 1983.
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    A contribuição de Nietzsche para a ética
    Cadernos Nietzsche 38 (3): 181-203. 2017.
  • GEACH, P. T. "Logic Matters" (review)
    Mind 84 (n/a): 122. 1975.
  •  2
    Nietzsche's Attack on Morality
    Dissertation, The University of Wisconsin - Madison. 1976.
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    From the Nietzsche Archive: Concerning the Aphorism Explicated in Genealogy III
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 35 (4): 611-614. 1997.
    Notes and Discussions From the Nietzsche Archive: Concerning the Aphorism Explicated in Genealogy III When I first read a version of John Wilcox's "What Aphorism Does Nietzsche Explicate in Genealogy of Morals, Essay III?" over a year ago, I was completely convinced by the textual considerations he advances in support of his thesis that the third essay of Nietzsche's Genealogy is intended as a commentary on the aphorism that constitutes its first section, and not, contrary to the standard assump…Read more
  •  64
    Suffering and the Affirmation of Life
    Journal of Nietzsche Studies 43 (1): 87-98. 2012.
    Bernard Reginster's book The Affirmation of Life purports to fill a gap in our understanding of Nietzsche's philosophical project by explaining why Nietzsche regards the affirmation of life as his defining philosophical achievement. Reginster is not alone in emphasizing the centrality of life affirmation to Nietzsche's thought. What makes Reginster's book new and original is his systematic approach—his attempt to isolate a core of Nietzsche's philosophy and show how everything else, especially t…Read more
  •  44
    Comments on “Nietzsche’s Perspectivist Rhetoric”
    International Studies in Philosophy 18 (2): 45-48. 1986.
  •  1
    Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 1997.
    Daybreak marks the arrival of Nietzsche's 'mature' philosophy and is indispensable for an understanding of his critique of morality and 'revaluation of all values'. This volume presents the distinguished translation by R. J. Hollingdale, with a new introduction that argues for a dramatic change in Nietzsche's views from Human, All Too Human to Daybreak, and shows how this change, in turn, presages the main themes of Nietzsche's later and better-known works such as On the Genealogy of Morality. T…Read more
  •  12
    Nietzsche
    Routledge. 1999.
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    2.9 Defending the Creation of Values
    Nietzsche Studien 44 (1). 2015.
    Name der Zeitschrift: Nietzsche-Studien Jahrgang: 44 Heft: 1 Seiten: 147-152
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    Will to power and sexuality in Nietzsche’s account of the ascetic ideal
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (1-2): 96-134. 2017.
    This paper challenges a near universal assumption regarding the third treatise of Nietzsche’s On the Genealogy of Morality : that its main concern is to explain the attraction or power of the ascetic ideal. I argue that GM III’s main concern is normative rather than descriptive-explanatory. An earlier paper argues that GM III’s leading question – What is the meaning of the ascetic ideal? – is equivalent to the question: What is the value of the ascetic ideal? In the present paper, I interpret an…Read more
  •  70
    On “Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense”
    International Studies in Philosophy 16 (2): 57-65. 1984.
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    This volume brings together fourteen mostly previously published articles by the prominent Nietzsche scholar Maudemarie Clark. Thus, it will allow readers to see more easily how Clark's views fit together as a whole, exhibit important developments of her ideas, and highlight her distinctive voice in Nietzsche studies.
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    Nietzsche's Antidemocratic Rhetoric
    Southern Journal of Philosophy 37 (S1): 119-141. 1999.
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    In Defense of an "Esoteric" Nietzsche
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 52 (2): 353-369. 2014.
    Although he finds in it an “ingenuity and daring” that is “remarkable,”1 Richard Schacht evidently does not like our book on Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil. We argue for an “esoteric” Nietzsche, one who sometimes writes in a way that is deliberately misleading, hence does not mean what he initially seems to mean. It can therefore take considerable work to uncover his true meaning. Schacht appears to find this offensive, as if one does not play such games in polite society, but lays all of one’…Read more