Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind

Contents......Page 6
Note on texts, translations, and abbreviations......Page 8
1. Introduction to Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind......Page 10
Part I: Embodied Cognition and Eliminative Materialism......Page 24
2. Nietzsche and Embodied Cognition......Page 26
3. Early Nietzsche on History, Embodiment, and Value......Page 58
4. Becoming Reasonable Bodies: Nietzsche and Paul Churchland’s Philosophy of Mind......Page 80
Part II: Consciousness and Freedom of the Will......Page 100
5. Nietzsche on the Superficiality of Consciousness......Page 102
6. Nietzsche on Will, Consciousness, and Choice: Another Look at Nietzschean Freedom......Page 122
Part III: Mind, Metaphysics, and Will to Power......Page 152
7. Nietzsche’s Panpsychism as the Equation of Mind and Matter......Page 154
8. On the Place of Consciousness Within the Will to Power......Page 172
Part IV: Consciousness, Language, and Metaphor......Page 190
9. Talking Ourselves into Selfhood: Nietzsche on Consciousness and Language in Gay Science 354......Page 192
10. The Figurative Patterns of Reason: Nietzsche on Tropes as Embodied Schemata......Page 204
Part V: Towards Naturalism......Page 224
11. Selbstverleugnung—Selbsttäuschung: Nietzsche and Schopenhauer on the Self......Page 226
12. On Natural Beings: Nietzsche and Philosophical Naturalism......Page 244
Part VI: Ethics and “Life”......Page 268
13. “Shadows of God” and Neuroethics......Page 270
14. Nietzsche and the Perspective of Life......Page 282
Part VII: Redlichkeit and Embodied Wisdom......Page 296
15. Truth, Embodiment, and Probity (Redlichkeit) in Nietzsche......Page 298
16. When Wisdom Assumes Bodily Form......Page 318
Index......Page 338
Notes on contributors......Page 358