Nietzsche''s Dynamic Metapsychology - This Uncanny Animal

An analysis and assessment of Nietzsche's metapsychology. Nietzsche is neither a dualist nor a physical reductionist about the mind. Instead, he is best interpreted as thinking that the mind is embodied and embedded in a larger natural and social environment with which it is dynamically engaged.

List of contents

Series Editors' Foreword Introduction 1. Naturalism, Science, Positivism 2. Embodiment, Embeddedness, Teleology 3. Perception, Perspectivism, Falsification 4. Drive, Affect, Thought 5. Reflective Consciousness, Phenomenalism, Epiphenomenalism 6. Self, Will, Power Notes Bibliography Index

About the author

Rex Welshon is Professor of Philosophy and Senior Associate Dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA. His primary philosophical interests are in philosophy of mind, philosophy of neuroscience and the philosophical work of Nietzsche.

Summary

An analysis and assessment of Nietzsche's metapsychology. Nietzsche is neither a dualist nor a physical reductionist about the mind. Instead, he is best interpreted as thinking that the mind is embodied and embedded in a larger natural and social environment with which it is dynamically engaged.

Product details

• Authors: R Welshon, R. Welshon, Rex Welshon
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.06.2014
• EAN: 9780230303287
• ISBN: 978-0-230-30328-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science; New Directions in Philosophy a; New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science; New Directions in Philosophy a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; B, Philosophy of Mind, Modern philosophy: since c 1800, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, cognitive psychology, Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Modern Philosophy, Early Modern Philosophy