Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

By Oxford University

What's Nietzsche on Mind and Nature about?

Keynote speeches and special session given at the international conference 'Nietzsche on Mind and Nature', held at St. Peter's College, Oxford, 11-13 September 2009, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford.

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Nietzsche on Mind and Nature episodes:

12.23.2009
Nietzsche Source. Scholarly Nietzsche editions on the web
Introduction to the scholarly editions of Nietzsche Source: the digital critical edition based on Colli/Montinary, the digital edition of the Nietzsche estate including works, manuscripts and letters and the future genetic edition of Nietzsche's works.
12.23.2009
Nietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything
Lecture on Nietzsche's attack on Value Dualism, as well as the view he offers instead and whether Nietzsche can sustain his Value Monism-the view that everything is good-given the pressures that pull him back into saying no as well as...
12.22.2009
Nietzsche's Metaphysics
Nietzsche rejects a persisting self; real distinctions of objects and properties, categorical and dispositional properties, causes and effects; free will. He holds that determinism is true, reality is one and fundamentally experiential.
12.22.2009
Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature
On the triangulation between consciousness, language and nature in Nietzsche's philosophy and contemporary philosophy of mind and proposes a philosophy of signs and interpretation as a basis for a philosophy of mind, language and nature.
12.22.2009
Who is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom
Nietzsche's Sovereign Individual (SI) argues that 1. Nietzsche denies free will and moral responsibility. 2. SI in no way supports a denial of 1. 3. Nietzsche engages in a 'persuasive definition' of the language of Freedom and Free Will.
12.22.2009
Nietzsche on Soul in Nature
This keynote speech examines if, according to Nietzsche, experience of nature is inevitably conditioned by some archetypal phantasm or cultural construction process or if unmediated apprehension of nature is possible.
12.22.2009
The Genealogy of Guilt
Nietzsche's objective is not to challenge the Christian non-naturalistic account of guilt but to show that Christian representation of guilt is a product of the exploitation of human susceptibility to guilt as instrument of self-directed cruelty.

What's Nietzsche on Mind and Nature about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

Nietzsche on Mind and Nature episodes:

Nietzsche Source. Scholarly Nietzsche editions on the web

Nietzsche's Value Monism - Saying Yes to Everything

Nietzsche's Metaphysics

Consciousness, Language and Nature: Nietzsche's Philosophy of Mind and Nature

Who is the 'Sovereign Individual?' Nietzsche on Freedom

Nietzsche on Soul in Nature

The Genealogy of Guilt