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Podcast Profile: Nietzsche on Mind and Nature

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7 episodes
2009
Median: 57 minutes
Collection: Philosophy

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This podcast presents keynote talks and special-session lectures from an academic conference on Nietzsche’s philosophy of mind and nature. Across the episodes, speakers examine how Nietzsche understands the relation between human psychology, language, and the natural world, often bringing his views into contact with themes in contemporary philosophy of mind. A recurring concern is Nietzsche’s challenge to familiar metaphysical and moral categories: the idea of a persisting self, robust distinctions between objects and properties, traditional accounts of causation, and especially free will and moral responsibility.

Several talks develop Nietzsche’s approach to value and normativity, including his critique of value dualisms and the question of whether his affirmative stance toward life can be made consistent with the critical and negative dimensions of his thought. The podcast also explores Nietzsche’s reworking of moral concepts through genealogical analysis, focusing on how guilt and related forms of self-assessment can be historically shaped and socially instrumentalized rather than grounded in a non-naturalistic moral order.

Alongside these interpretive and philosophical discussions, the podcast includes material on scholarship and methodology, introducing digital critical resources for Nietzsche’s texts, manuscripts, and correspondence, and outlining projects aimed at more fine-grained “genetic” study of how the works developed. Overall, the series offers a research-oriented picture of Nietzsche as a thinker of mind, nature, and culture, with attention to both textual foundations and systematic philosophical implications.