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65Nietzsche and UbuntuSouth African Journal of Philosophy 26 (1): 85-97. 2007.Here I argue that aspects of Nietzsche's thought may be productively compared with the role played by the concept of ubuntu in talk of cultural renaissance in South Africa. I show that Nietzsche respects and writes for humanity conceived of in a vital sense, thereby imagining a sense of authenticity that may prove significant to talk of cultural renaissance in South Africa. I question the view that Nietzsche is an individualist, drawing on debate between Conway (1990) and Gooding-Williams (2001)…Read more
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62Nietzsche and the Ancient Skeptical Tradition (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1): 138-140. 2013.Jessica Berry provides the first detailed analysis of whether, and in what sense, Nietzsche was a skeptic (5). Exploring the affinity between Nietzsche’s work and Pyrrhonism in six main chapters, Berry differentiates between modern skepticism, understood as epistemological pessimism or nihilism (33), and Pyrrhonian skepticism as a commitment to continuing inquiry, based on the equipollence of arguments, “roughly equal persuasive weight for and against just about any claim,” and epochē, suspensio…Read more
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51Nietzsche, science, and philosophical nihilismSouth African Journal of Philosophy 24 (4): 241-259. 2005.Nietzsche offers us a critique of modern culture as threatened by a nihilistic crisis in values. Philosophy is specifically incorporated into Nietzsche's critique, resulting in the claim that modern philosophy, as well as modern culture, is nihilistic. But why should contemporary philosophers give this view credence? In this paper, I put forward some reasons to take Nietzsche's view seriously, focusing on the relationship between science and philosophy. I suggest that modern philosophy still ten…Read more
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50Nietzsche's philosophy of religion (review) (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 46 (3). 2008.Readers might be forgiven raised eyebrows on first noting the title of Julian Young's book. Young's chief and surprising claim is that, even though Nietzsche "rejects the God of Christianity, he is not anti-religious," and that he is " above all a religious thinker" , whose atheism only applies in the case of the Christian God , and whose early "religious communitarianism" or "Wagnerianism" persist throughout the texts . Young defines Nietzsche's early thought as communitarian by virtue of conce…Read more
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31Reconsidering Risk to Women: Oocyte Donation for Human Embryonic Stem Cell ResearchAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (9): 37-39. 2011.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 9, Page 37-39, September 2011
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30Biophysical models of human behavior: Is there a place for logicAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (3): 70-72. 2011.We present a two-pronged criticism of Ramos's argument. Our main contention is that the logic of the author’s argument is flawed. As we demonstrate, the author conflates probability with necessity, in addition to conflating free will having causal efficacy with the merely illusory conscious experience of free will; such conflations undermine the claim that individual free will should be both exhibited on a social scale and necessarily cause a particular organized pattern to emerge. In addition, …Read more
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27A Paradoxical Ethical Framework for Unpredictable Drug ShortagesAmerican Journal of Bioethics 12 (1). 2012.The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 12, Issue 1, Page 16-18, January 2012
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25Ethical Review of Health Systems Research: Vulnerability and the Need for Philosophy in Research EthicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (2): 38-39. 2014.No abstract
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24Gilles Deleuze's "Difference and Repetition": A Critical Introduction and Guide (review) (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 31 (1): 61-62. 2006.
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22Cultural Diversity, Families, and Research SubjectsAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (5): 33-34. 2011.
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17Experimentation, Curiosity, and ForgettingJournal of Nietzsche Studies 50 (1): 11-32. 2019.Bernard Reginster has argued that in "Nietzsche's terminology, 'experimentation [Versuch]' is a paradigmatic exercise of curiosity."1 According to Reginster, the kind of curiosity in question, as far as Nietzsche's concept of the free spirit is concerned, is not the state of knowing or of being certain of the truth of some proposition, but is rather a matter of the activity or process of truth seeking and of inquiry.2 My own view is very similar: I have argued that experimentalism is a form of v…Read more
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17Getting Even More Specific About Physicians' Obligations: Justice, Responsibility, and ProfessionalismAmerican Journal of Bioethics 14 (9): 46-47. 2014.(2014). Getting Even More Specific About Physicians’ Obligations: Justice, Responsibility, and Professionalism. The American Journal of Bioethics: Vol. 14, No. 9, pp. 46-47
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13DaybreakIn Paul C. Bishop (ed.), A Companion to Friedrich Nietzsche: Life and Works, Boydell & Brewer [camden House]. 2012.I provide a critical interpretation of Morgenröthe: Gedanken über die moralischen Vorurteile that identifies the key philosophical work done by Nietzsche in this text, as well as presenting the text as a type of medical narrative. I show how Nietzsche engages with three main questions, drawing thematic connections between themes of physical and psychological health and of ethics, in order to develop a foundation for his critical transvaluation project: First, what is the nature of, and relations…Read more
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10The Art of Power: Machiavelli, Nietzsche, and the Making of Aesthetic Political Theory (review)Journal of Nietzsche Studies 38 (1): 95-99. 2009.Book review.
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8The liberatory limits of Nietzsche’s colonial imagination in Dawn §206In Barry Stocker & Manuel Knoll (eds.), Nietzsche as Political Philosopher, De Gruyter. pp. 59-76. 2014.
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8Just How Cognitive Is Emotion? The Continuing Importance of the Philosophy of Emotion in Enhancement EthicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 4 (1): 18-19. 2013.
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7Digital Humanities and the History of Philosophy: The Case of Nietzsche's Moral PsychologyJournal of Nietzsche Studies 51 (2): 241. 2020.ARRAY
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2Nietzsche’s Dawn: Philosophy, Ethics, and the Passion of KnowledgeWiley-Blackwell. 2020.This unique book explores Nietzsche’s philosophy at the time of Dawn’s writing and discusses the modern relevance of themes such as fear, superstition, terror, and moral and religious fanaticism. The authors highlight Dawn’s links with key areas of philosophical inquiry, such as “the art of living well,” skepticism, and naturalism. The book begins by introducing Dawn and discussing how to read Nietzsche, his literary and philosophical influences, his relation to German philosophy, and his effort…Read more
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2Just how cognitive is emotion? The continuing importance of the philosophy of emotion in enhancement ethicsAmerican Journal of Bioethics-Neuroscience 4 (1): 18-19. 2013.
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2Mood and aphorism in Nietzsche’s campaign against moralityPli: The Warwick Journal of Philosophy 25 (55-76). 2014.
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2Nietzsche's Free Spirit Philosophy (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield International. 2015.A major collection of essays by a panel of leading Nietzsche scholars exploring Nietzsche's philosophy of the free spirit
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2The Virtue of Shame: Defending Nietzsche’s critique of MitleidIn Gudrun von Tevenar (ed.), Nietzsche and Ethics, Peter Lang Verlag. 2007.I argue that moral intuitions about Nietzsche as an exemplar of practical cruelty can be overturned. My argument is based upon the possibility of abandoning the notion of pure and unmediated passivity as intrinsic to the phenomena of human suffering and of Mitleid, as identified by Nietzsche. I claim that wrongly identifying intrinsic passivity in the phenomenology of Mitleid and of suffering generates the moral sceptical intuition. Once this case of mistaken identity is uncovered, 1 suggest, th…Read more
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1Nietzsche's aestheticism and the value of sufferingIn Paul Bishop & R. H. Stephenson (eds.), Cultural Studies and the Symbolic: Occasional Papers in Cassirer and Cultural Theory Studies, Presented at the University of Glasgow's Centre for Intercultural Studies, Northern Universities Press. 2003.
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1Ecce Homo: Philosophical Autobiography in the FleshIn Duncan Large & Nicholas Martin (eds.), Nietzsche’s “Ecce Homo”, De Gruyter. forthcoming.
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DawnIn Paul Katsafanas (ed.), Routledge Philosophical Minds: The Nietzschean Mind, Routledge. pp. 37-52. 2018.
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