Nietzsche's Dynamic Metapsychology [electronic resource] : This Uncanny Animal /
Welshon, R.author.
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.
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Cover; Title; Copyright ; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Naturalism, Science, Positivism; I Naturalism, scientists, and science; II Things-in-themselves, the 'real' world, and positivism; III Beyond positivism and idealism; 2 Embodiedness, Embeddedness, Teleology; I Physiology; II The end of teleology; III Embodiment, embeddedness, and naturalizing teleology; 3 Perception, Perspectivism, Falsification; I Perception and interoception; II Perspectivism; III The falsification thesis; 4 Drive, Affect, Thought; I Drives
II The ontology and structure of drivesIII Affect and thought; 5 Reflective Consciousness, Phenomenalism, Epiphenomenalism; I Basic and reflective consciousness; II The phenomenality of reflective consciousness; III The epiphenomenality of reflective consciousness; 6 Self, Will, Power; I Physiology, psychology, and the self; II Will, downward causation, and exclusion; III Achieving a self, power, and self-overcoming; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
Philosophy of mind.
Modern philosophy.
Cognitive psychology.
Philosophy of Mind.
Modern Philosophy.
Cognitive Psychology.