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Friday, August 14, 2009

Announcing "Nietzsche Grid"

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Carlos Ruiz (who uses the pen name Narziss), a student at Berkeley, has put together "Nietzsche Grid" , which is potentially a ver...
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Saturday, August 1, 2009

David Rosenthal on Consciousness

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This useful summary of a recent paper by Rosenthal makes clear why students of Nietzsche should want to study Rosenthal's work on consci...
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

What is "the Kantian ethics/epistemology/metaphysics/aesthetics grid"?

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Dana Villa is a political theorist in the Political Science Department at the University of Notre Dame. In a review essay of some recent boo...
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Monday, July 6, 2009

Nietzsche's Philosophy of Action

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This is the penultimate draft of an essay for The Blackwell Companion to the Philosophy of Action being edited by Timothy O'Connor and...
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Monday, June 29, 2009

Draft Program for "Nietzsche on Mind and Nature" at Oxford This September Now Available

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Here . A lot of interesting stuff, though I regret I am probably going to miss the Friday sessions. Abstracts are not available yet; I...
Saturday, June 20, 2009

Two New Books on Nietzsche: One Introductory, One for Scholars and Advanced Students

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The introductory volume is Charlie Huenemann's Nietzsche: Genius of the Heart , which he kindly sent me. I've been dipping in and ou...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Riverside and 1st Annual Magnus Lecture by Maudemarie Clark

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Last Saturday's event was quite instructive and rewarding, at least for me, though I think others too. Maudemarie Clark offered a new, c...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009

"Bernd Magnus Lecture" at UC Riverside by Maudemarie Clark, May 30th

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I hope to see some readers there : The First Annual Lecture in The Bernd Magnus Lecture Series Saturday, May 30th Featured Speakers and Comm...
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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

"Nietzsche and Morality" Now Out in Paperback

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I got my actual copies today, though Amazon reports not having it in stock yet, but it should be enroute. The volume contains original ess...
Monday, May 11, 2009

Another Friend of the Naturalist Reading of Nietzsche

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Here (in French--a grad student at the Jean Nicod Institute).
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Saturday, May 9, 2009

The Last "Most Important" Philosopher Poll

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Our man is trailing--brace yourself--Augustine! Help him out . More substantive postings coming as the term is coming to an end here.
Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Another Poll: Vote for Nietzsche!

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Here . So far, Hegel is ahead of Nietzsche. Unbelievable!
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

More Polling Amusement: Rank Order Your Favorite Books About Nietzsche

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Here . Obviously the list omits books that some might have included; I've tried to give a decent sampling of English, German, and Fren...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009

A Useful Review of a New Collection of Essays on Zarathustra

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Here , by a former student of mine, Neil Sinhababu. This was skillfully done, given that it obviously was a fairly uneven collection. But th...
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Sunday, March 29, 2009

Where Have Readers Had Good Experiences with Language Study?

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A question that always comes up for PhD students is where to go for summer programs to develop or improve their German reading, translation,...
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Saturday, March 21, 2009

More Thoughts on the Argument from "Moral Disagreement," Part II

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This is a belated follow-up to the earlier post addressing an excellent set of questions and challenges raised by Justin Clarke-Doane (NYU)...
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Friday, March 20, 2009

Some Old Reviews: of Safranski, Kohler, Conway, among others

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I was surprised to discover that the Times Literary Supplement makes available on-line old book reviews, including several of mine. Readers...
Friday, March 13, 2009

Which Anglophone school would you recommend for PhD studies focusing on Nietzsche?

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I'm curious to see what readers think about this one . CORRECTION: The CUNY listing should also include N. Pappas, who works on Plato a...
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Thursday, March 12, 2009

Best Journals for Nietzsche Scholarship?

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Here is a new poll , which may be especially helpful to younger scholars trying to figure out where to submit their Nietzsche work: Which jo...
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Sunday, March 8, 2009

What are your favorite books by Nietzsche?

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By reader demand, here's a new poll with which to have some fun. This one I'm quite curious to see the results.
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Brian Leiter is Karl N. Llewellyn Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center for Law, Philosophy, & Human Values at the University of Chicago. He works on a variety of topics in moral, political, and legal philosophy. His current Nietzsche-related work concerns Nietzsche's theory of agency and its intersection with recent work in empirical psychology; Nietzsche's arguments for moral skepticism; and the role of naturalism in Nietzsche's philosophy.
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