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Towards adualism: becoming and nihilism in Nietzsche's philosophy
No full textThis chapter argues that Nietzsche held two doctrines of becoming: one more radical, which he requires to fend off nihilism, and one much more moderate—the ontology of relations he develops under the label ‘will to power’. Based on the latter he develops what the author call his ‘adualistic’—neither monistic nor dualistic—practice of thought, a ‘simultaneity-thinking’ (Zugleich-Denken) that is no longer subject to nihilism. For Nietzsche’s belief in the reality of the threat of nihilism to be intelligible, the author attributes to Nietzsche at least three assumptions that underpin his entire project: (1) ‘what there is, is becoming (and not being)’, (2) ‘most (if not all) strongly believe in being’, and (3) nihilism is a function of the belief in being
Nietzsche’s critique of staticism: Introduction to Nietzsche on time and history
No full textWhy are we still intrigued by Nietzsche? What the author argues in this chapter is that this sustained interest stems from Nietzsche’s challenge to what we might call the ‘staticism’ inherent in our ordinary experience. ‘Staticism’ can be defined, roughly speaking, as the view that the world is a collection of enduring, re-identifiable objects that change only very gradually and according to determinate laws. This article claims that as long as human beings subscribe to the ‘staticist picture’ Nietzsche will remain of interest. First, the chapter discusses Nietzsche’s rejection of the remnants of staticism in Hegel and Schopenhauer (both of whom, he holds, remain fundamentally opposed to taking time and history seriously). Second, it briefly outlines why Nietzsche deems the belief in any variant of the staticist picture as problematic. Finally, it examines Nietzsche’s adualistic-dialetheic stance towards the staticist worldview
Nietzsche on consciousness and the embodied mind Monographien und Texte zur Nietzsche-Forschung ;, Bd. 70./ edited by Manuel Dries.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.Nietzsche's thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo-American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. 'Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind' presents 16 essays from analytic and continental perspectives. Appealing to both international communities of scholars, the volume seeks to deepen the appreciation of Nietzsche's contribution to our understanding of consciousness and the mind. Over the past decades, a variety of disciplines have engaged with Nietzsche's thought, including anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, to name just a few. His rich and perspicacious treatment of consciousness, mind, and body cannot be reduced to any single discipline, and has the potential to speak to many. And, as several contributors make clear, Nietzsche's investigations into consciousness and the embodied mind are integral to his wider ethical concerns.1. Part I: Embodied cognition and eliminative materialism. 2. 3 4. Part II: Consciousnessand freedom of the will. 5 6. Part III: Mind, metaphysics, and will to power. 7. 8. Part IV: Consciousness, language, and metaphor. 9. 10. Part V: Towards naturalism. 11. 12. Part VI: Ethics and "life". 13. 14. Part VII: Redlichkeit and embodied wisdom. 15. 16. Manuel Dries. -- Christa Davis Acampora. -- Manuel Dries. -- Helmut Heit. -- Mattia Riccardi. -- João Constâncio. -- Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen. -- Frank Chouraqui. -- Lawrence J. Hatab. -- Benedetta Zavatta. Anthony K. Jensen. -- Christian J. Emden. -- Maria Cristina Fornari. -- Charlie Huenemann. -- Vanessa Lemm. -- Keith Ansell-Pearson. Introduction to Nietzsche on Consciousness and the embodied mind / Nietzsche and embodied cognition / Early Nietzsche on history, embodiment, and value / Becoming reasonable bodies: Nietzsche and Paul Churchland's philosophy of mind / Nietzsche on the superficiality of consciousness / Nietzsche on will, consciousness, and choice: another look at Nietzschean freedom / Nietzsche's panpsychism as the equation of mind and matter / On the place of consciousness within the will to power / Talking ourselves into selfhood: Nietzsche on consciousness and language in Gay Science 354 / The figurative patterns of reason: Nietzsche on tropes as embodied schemata / Selbstverleugnung--Selbsttäuschung: Nietzsche and Schopenhauer on the self / On natural beings: Nietzsche and philosophical naturalism / "Shadows of God" and neuroethics / Nietzsche and the perspective of life / Truth, embodiment, and probity (Redlichkeit) in Nietzsche / When wisdom assumes bodily form /1 online resource (viii, 351 pages)
Early Nietzsche on History, Embodiment, and Value
No full text"This chapter offers a new perspective on Nietzsche’s important early text On the Use and Disadvantage of History for Life (HL). The centrality of the embodiment of mind, self, and values for the later Nietzsche is widely acknowledged, but I here argue that the “historical sickness [die historische Krankheit]” that is the central concern of HL is diagnosed already in this early text as a failure to understand the embodied nature of human values. In section 3.2, I show that a precursor to Nietzsche’s figure of “the last human” is already the target in HL. In section 3.3, following recent research, I offer working definitions for terms such as “drives,” “affects,” and “values” that are crucial for understanding Nietzsche’s diagnostic framework: Nietzschean selves are best understood as complex, embodied systems of drives with affective orientations, as well as embodied unconscious and conscious values. While this picture of selves as embodied self-systems of drives and affects emerges fully only in Nietzsche’s later writings, I propose that it can be identified and applies already in HL. In section 3.4, I focus on a neglected passage that contrasts the medieval memento mori with a modern memento vivere. I interpret the memento mori as an embodied mechanism of willing and self-control, which Nietzsche claims the moderns have been unsuccessful in replacing. In the final section (3.5), I draw on recent research in embodied cogni- tion to illuminate two hypotheses—I label these “overload” and “semantic embodiment”—that Nietzsche considers as causes of the moderns’ “historical sickness” that undermines their flourishing.
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Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind
No full textNietzsche’s thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in both the Anglo- American and the phenomenological and hermeneutic traditions. Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind presents 16 essays from analytic and continental perspectives. Appealing to both international communities of scholars, the volume seeks to deepen the appreciation of Nietzsche’s contribution to our understanding of consciousness and the mind. Over the past decades, a variety of disciplines have engaged with Nietzsche’s thought, including anthropology, biology, history, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, to name just a few. His rich and perspicacious treatment of consciousness, mind, and body cannot be reduced to any single discipline, and has the potential to speak to many. And, as several contributors make clear, Nietzsche’s investigations into consciousness and the embodied mind are integral to his wider ethical concerns.
This volume contains contributions by international experts such as Christa Davis Acampora (Emory University), Keith Ansell-Pearson (Warwick University), João Constâncio (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University), Manuel Dries (The Open University; Oxford University), Christian J. Emden (Rice University), Maria Cristina Fornari (University of Salento), Anthony K. Jensen (Providence College), Helmut Heit (Tongji University), Charlie Huenemann (Utah State University), Vanessa Lemm (Flinders University), Lawrence J. Hatab (Old Dominion University), Mattia Riccardi (University of Porto), Friedrich Ulfers and Mark Daniel Cohen (New York University and EGS), and Benedetta Zavatta (CNRS)
Introduction to Nietzsche on Mind and Nature
No full textThis chapter provides summaries of the chapter of this book and introduces the major themes and debates addressed in the volume. Discussed are Nietzsche’s metaphysics; his philosophy of mind in light of contemporary views; the question of panpsychism of Beyond Good and Evil 36; the rejection of dualism in favour of monism, in particular a monism of value; Nietzsche’s positions on consciousness and embodied cognition in light of recent cognitive science; a conception of freedom and agency based on an intrinsically motivating; embodied sense of self-efficacy; a Nietzschean account of valuing understood as drive-induced affective orientations of which an agent approves; the idea of ressentiment conceived as a process of intentional, not reflectively strategic, self-deception about one’s own conscious mental states; and a defence of a Nietzschean naturalism
Freedom, resistance, agency
No full textThe aim of this article is to show (1) that freedom and agency are among Nietzsche's central concerns, (2) that his much-discussed interest in power in fact originates in a first-person account of freedom, and (3) that this novel understanding of the phenomenon of freedom informs his "theory" of agency. I will argue that while Nietzsche questions the weight philosophers have given to the first-person perspective and consciousness, these remain essential not only to his initial analysis but also to his later conception of freedom and agency. While his rejection of metaphysical free will and moral desert has had a significant impact on contemporary ethics, the sense in which Nietzsche continues to use the term "freedom" affirmatively remains largely unnoticed. He develops a sophisticated drive-driven psychological motivational account: reflective judgement and reasons can motivate by means of the affects or affective orientations agents have due to their drives; he claims that due to a strong preference - we could say with Mele, a "standing desire" for freedom (it will soon become clear what Nietzsche means by "freedom") - agents can generate the necessary motivational affects to unify their drives in view of (certain) long-term goals. Thus, when in his later philosophy Nietzsche envisages free agents who not only feel free but whose belief in their agency is justified, he has replaced the metaphysical picture (of agents who are mysterious, noumenally free, causa sui agents) with a naturalized, drive-driven psychological view of agency that he thinks has the resources to cope with the problem of affirmation that arises under nihilism conditions
Do the biggest aisles serve a brighter future ? global retail chains and their implications for Romania
No full textDuring the past two decades many economies have opened their retail sector to foreign direct investment, yet little is known about possible implications of such liberalization on the economies of developing host countries. Using firm-level data from Romania, this study examines how the presence of global retail chains affects firms in the supplying industries. Applying a difference-in-differences method, the econometric analyses yield the following conclusions. The expansion of global retail chains leads to a significant increase in the total factor productivity in the supplying industries. Their presence in a region increases the total factor productivity of firms in the supplying industries by 15.2 percent and doubling the number of chains leads to a 10.8 percent increase in total factor productivity. However, the expansion benefits larger firms the most and has a much smaller impact on small enterprises. This conclusion is robust to several extensions and specifications, including the instrumental variable approach. These results suggest that the opening of the retail sector to foreign direct investment may stimulate productivity growth in upstream manufacturing and extend our understanding of foreign direct investment in service sectors.Food&Beverage Industry,Markets and Market Access,E-Business,Economic Theory&Research,Access to Markets
Mining predictive k-CNF expressions
No full textWe adapt Mitchell's version space algorithm for mining k-CNF formulae. Advantages of this algorithm are that it runs in a single pass over the data, is conceptually simple, can be used for missing value prediction, and has interesting theoretical properties, while an empirical evaluation on classification tasks yields competitive predictive results.sponsorship: This work was supported by a Postdoc grant from the Research Foundation-Flanders. This work is partially supported by the GOA project 2008/08 Probabilistic Logic Learning. This work uses HPC resources http://ludit.kuleuven.be/hpc. Anton Dries was the corresponding author. (Research Foundation-Flanders, GOA|2008/08)status: Publishe
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