Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 336 g
Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 336 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-289793-0
Verlag: Sydney University Press
to the emotions, his conception of the will and agency, his scepticism about free will and moral responsibility, his epiphenomenalism about certain kinds of conscious mental states, and his views about the heritability of psychological traits.
In combining exegesis with argument, Leiter engages the views of philosophers like Harry Frankfurt, T. M. Scanlon, and Gary Watson, and psychologists including Daniel Wegner, Benjamin Libet, and Stanley Milgram. Nietzsche emerges not simply as a museum piece from the history of ideas, but as a philosopher and psychologist who exceeds David Hume for insight into human nature and the human mind, repeatedly anticipates later developments in empirical psychology, and continues to offer
sophisticated and unsettling challenges to much conventional wisdom in both philosophy and psychology.