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Friedrich Nietzsche
An outline of some significant events in Friedrich Nietzsche’s life forms the biographical part of this chapter. Nietzsche sees the world as...
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Nietzsche as metaphysician?
This article provides a critical analysis of Justin Remhof’s attempt to defend the view that Nietzsche is best understood as a metaphysician.
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“Water is enough.” Nietzsche, intoxication and amor fati
If we follow the motif of intoxication in philosophical reflection, we cannot overlook its role in the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche. Here,...
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Nietzsche as metaphysician but which metaphysics? A response to Justin Remhof
This article is a critical response to Justin Remhof’s Nietzsche as Metaphysician.It contends that Remhof runs the question of whether Nietzsche is...
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Nietzsche on Philology
This chapter offers an examination of the importance for Nietzsche of philology—and its importance for the construction of the New Testament as well....
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Nietzsche’s Creative Hermeneutics: On Will to Power as Interpretation
In this article, I demonstrate that Friedrich Nietzsche offers us a unique form of hermeneutic critique. In particular, I contend that when reading...
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Introduction: Nietzsche, Professor of Philology at the University of Basel, 1869–1879
In the section of the 1886 Beyond Good and Evil called “We Scholars,” Nietzsche returns again to the very first personal problems he confronted when...
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Rorty, Nietzsche and Romanticism
This chapter describes the approach to romanticism which Richard Rorty develops in light of Isaiah Berlin’s work. It further shows how Nietzsche’s...
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Discourse Between Stefan Lorenz Sorgner and Paul Jorion on Nietzsche, Fascism and Moving Beyond Humanism: From Friedrich Nietzsche to Stefan Sorgner—The Short Path Leading from Superhumanism to Metahumanism
Is here shown that del Val and Sorgner’s metahumanism is an extension of Nietzsche’s superhumanism, the latter having been the aspiration to regain a...
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Nietzsche’s turn: from nature as value-less to value-laden
Nietzsche writes a preface to The Gay Science in 1886, four years after its first four books were in print. In this address, he explains that he has be...
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Two scientific perspectives on nerve signal propagation: how incompatible approaches jointly promote progress in explanatory understanding
We present a case study of two scientific perspectives on the phenomenon of nerve signal propagation, a bio-electric and a thermodynamic perspective,...
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Zhuangzi and Nietzsche
There is no actual relationship at all between Zhuangzi (about 369–286 B.C.E) and Nietzsche (1844–1900) in terms of influence that the latter might...
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The Idea of ‘Moral Relativism’ in the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
In this paper, I shall apply the idea of ‘moral relativism’ in the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. The concept of ‘moral relativism’ has been...
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Rorty, Nietzsche and Romanticism
This chapter describes the approach to romanticism which Richard Rorty develops in light of Isaiah Berlin’s work. It further shows how Nietzsche’s...
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Scientific Perspectivism and psychiatric diagnoses: respecting history and constraining relativism
Historians and sociologists of psychiatry often claim that psychiatric diagnoses are discontinuous. That is, a particular diagnoses will be described...
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Existence and Perspectivity: Jan Patočka’s Three Movements of Human Life Reconsidered
Perspectivity, i.e., the fact that human beings are bound to their point of view in their knowledge and action, is a prominent motif in modern...
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Nietzsche’s Epistemic Perspectivism
Nietzsche offers a positive epistemology, and those who interpret him as a skeptic or a mere pragmatist are mistaken. Instead he supports what he...
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Scientific perspectivism in the phenomenological tradition
In current debates, many philosophers of science have sympathies for the project of introducing a new approach to the scientific realism debate that...
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Haptic realism for neuroscience
Recent work in philosophy of science has shown how the challenges posed by extremely complex systems require that scientists employ a range of...
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Experimental Skepticism and the Question of Values in Nietzsche’s Thought
In recent years, the question of Nietzsche’s position on skepticism has taken on new vigor. On the one hand, although it cannot be easily ascertained...