Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

This volume presents new essays exploring important aspects of Nietzsches philosophy in connection with two major themes: mind and nature. A team of leading experts address questions including: What is Nietzsches conception of mind? How does mind relate with the (rest of) nature? And what is Nietzsches conception of nature? They all express the thought that Nietzsches views on these matters are of great philosophical value, either because those views areconsonant with contemporary thinking to a greater or lesser extent or because they represent a rich alternative to contemporary attitudes. The essays engage with Nietzsches metaphysics, his philosophy of mind in light of contemporary views, the question of panpsychism in Beyond Good and Evil 36, therejection of dualism in favour of monism (in particular a monism of value), Nietzsches positions on consciousness and embodied cognition in light of recent cognitive science, a conception of freedom and agency based on an intrinsically motivating, embodied sense of self-efficacy, a Nietzschean account of valuing understood as drive-induced affective orientations of which an agent approves, the idea of ressentiment conceived as a process of intentional, not reflectively strategic,self-deception about ones own conscious mental states, and a defence of a Nietzschean naturalism.