Nietzsche's naturalism : philosophy and the life sciences in the nineteenth century /
This book explores Nietzsche's philosophical naturalism in its historical context, showing that his position is best understood against the background of encounters between neo-Kantianism and the life sciences in the nineteenth century. Analyzing most of Nietzsche's writings from the late...
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2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I. Varieties of philosophical naturalism. Introduction
- The neo-Kantian stance
- Nietzsche's "anti-Darwinism"?
- Psychology, experiment, and scientific practice
- Three kinds of naturalism
- Part II. Evolution and the limits of teleology. Introduction
- Problems with purpose
- The politics of progress
- Naturalizing Kant
- Genealogy and path dependence
- Part III. Genealogy, nature, and normativity. Introduction
- "Darwinism's" metaphysical mistake
- Living things and the will to power
- Toward a natural history of normativity
- "Naturalism in morality."
