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Presents a fresh interpretation of Nietzsche's controversial account of nature and value in relation to Kant and Hume.
List of contents
Introduction: structure of the argument; Nietzsche and Naturalism; 1. Nihilism and the Problem of Objective Value: The Kantian Roots to Nietzsche's Fictionalism: The Priority of Art over Science; The Second Argument for Value Fictionalism: The Priority of Science over Art; Non-Cognitivism and Phenomenal Objectivity; 2. Value and Objectivity: Value Objectivism; Comprehensive Science; 3. The Will to Power as a Response to Kant: Nietzsche's Qualified Praise for Kant's Idealism; The Will to Power as an Alternative to Kant's Synthesis; A Textual and Philosophical Challenge; 4. Value and the Will to Power: Nietzsche's Dispositional Account of Value; Anti-Projectionism; Dispositions and Normativity; 5. The Capacities of the Conscious Mind: The Leibnizean and Kantian background to Nietzsche's Account of the Conscious Mind; Reconstruction of Nietzsche's Argument; The Ubiquity of the Intentional; Conclusion.
About the author
Tsarina Doyle is Lecturer in Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She is the author of Nietzsche on Epistemology and Metaphysics: The World in View (2009) and numerous journal articles.
Summary
This book argues that Nietzsche's will to power provides an account of how values fit into the natural world, challenging Hume indirectly through critical engagement with Kant's idealism. It will be important for scholars of Nietzsche's metaphysics and of the history of philosophy and science more generally.
