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Joshua Andresen
Yale University
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    Nietzsche, Naturalism, and Falsification.Joshua Andresen - 2013 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 44 (3):469-481.
    ABSTRACT This essay focuses on one of Nietzsche's greatest challenges to our understanding of perception and cognition: his “falsification thesis.” I argue that despite several innovative and insightful attempts to understand Nietzsche's claims about falsification, they have failed because they have not made an adequate connection between Nietzsche's falsification claims and his naturalistic account of the development of human cognition. Nietzsche's most important insight is that the basic falsifications and simplifications of sensation and language are not only often quite useful (...)
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    Deconstruction, Normativity, And Democracy To Come.Joshua Andresen - 2010 - Philosophy Today 54 (2):103-120.
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    Deconstruction, Secularism, and Islam.Joshua Andresen - 2012 - Philosophy Today 56 (4):375-392.
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    Nietzsche contra Dennett.Joshua Andresen - 2015 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (1):120-131.
    ABSTRACT I argue that Dennett's indulgence in anthropomorphism in his accounts of evolution and agency has costs that we are better off not paying. To that end, I examine Dennett's algorithmic analysis of evolution by natural selection, paying attention to the status and role of anthropomorphism in his account of the nature of human agency and the order and rationality of the natural world. I argue that Dennett's embrace of the design and intentional stances leads him not only to an (...)
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    Nietzsche’s Conception of Value: A Story of Three Errors.Joshua Andresen - 2009 - Nietzsche Studien (1973) 38 (1):207-228.
    The paper argues that an adequate account of Nietzsche's conception of value must take into consideration the complex interaction of intrahuman forces, such as drives and affects, and interhuman cultural forces which together give rise to values. The paper goes on to confront three major interpretive tendencies in Nietzsche scholarship which stem, I argue, from overly reductive accounts of value. The tendencies, exemplified by Richard Schacht, Maudmarie Clark, and Alexander Nehamas respectively claim: that value is or should be objective in (...)
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    Nietzsche’s conception of value: A story of three errors.Joshua Andresen - 2009 - Nietzsche Studien 38 (1):207-228.
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    Nietzsche contra Dennett.Joshua Andresen - 2015 - Journal of Nietzsche Studies 46 (1):120-131.
    ABSTRACT I argue that Dennett's indulgence in anthropomorphism in his accounts of evolution and agency has costs that we are better off not paying. To that end, I examine Dennett's algorithmic analysis of evolution by natural selection, paying attention to the status and role of anthropomorphism in his account of the nature of human agency and the order and rationality of the natural world. I argue that Dennett's embrace of the design and intentional stances leads him not only to an (...)
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    Revenge, Return, And The Great Flood.Joshua Andresen - 2007 - International Studies in Philosophy 39 (3):27-42.
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    Truth and Illusion beyond Falsification: Re-reading On Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense.Joshua Andresen - 2010 - Nietzsche Studien 39 (1):255-281.
    This essay clarifies Nietzsche's early views on truth and falsity by giving a systematic reading of On Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense. Contrary to the prevailing view in recent Nietzsche scholarship, I argue that Nietzsche, in TL, affirms neither truth as correspondence nor the inevitable falsification of the world by cognition. I show that where Nietzsche appears to affirm falsification, he is in fact giving a reductio ad absurdum of truth as correspondence and the notion of objectivity on (...)
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    Truth and Illusion beyond Falsification: Re-reading On Truth and Lie in the Extra-Moral Sense.Joshua Andresen - 2010 - Nietzsche Studien 39 (1):255-281.
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