Nietzsche''s Dynamic Metapsychology - This Uncanny Animal

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

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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

Product details

• Authors: R Welshon, R. Welshon, Rex Welshon
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9781349338030
• ISBN: 978-1-349-33803-0
• 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 > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; 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