Nietzsche's Dynamic Metapsychology: This Uncanny Animal

by R. Welshon

Overview

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

ISBN-13:	9781349338030
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2014
Series:	New Directions in Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Edition description:	1st ed. 2014
Pages:	229
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x (d)

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.

Table 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