2. Nietzsche and Embodied Cognition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Note on texts, translations, and abbreviations VII
4. 1. Introduction to Nietzsche on Consciousness and the Embodied Mind 1
5. Part I: Embodied Cognition and Eliminative Materialism
6. 2. Nietzsche and Embodied Cognition 17
7. 3. Early Nietzsche on History, Embodiment, and Value 49
8. 4. Becoming Reasonable Bodies: Nietzsche and Paul Churchland’s Philosophy of Mind 71
9. Part II: Consciousness and Freedom of the Will
10. 5. Nietzsche on the Superficiality of Consciousness 93
11. 6. Nietzsche on Will, Consciousness, and Choice: Another Look at Nietzschean Freedom 113
12. Part III: Mind, Metaphysics, and Will to Power
13. 7. Nietzsche’s Panpsychism as the Equation of Mind and Matter 145
14. 8. On the Place of Consciousness Within the Will to Power 163
15. Part IV: Consciousness, Language, and Metaphor
16. 9. Talking Ourselves into Selfhood: Nietzsche on Consciousness and Language in Gay Science 354 183
17. 10. The Figurative Patterns of Reason: Nietzsche on Tropes as Embodied Schemata 195
18. Part V: Towards Naturalism
19. 11. Selbstverleugnung—Selbsttäuschung: Nietzsche and Schopenhauer on the Self 217
20. 12. On Natural Beings: Nietzsche and Philosophical Naturalism 235
21. Part VI: Ethics and “Life”
22. 13. “Shadows of God” and Neuroethics 261
23. 14. Nietzsche and the Perspective of Life 273
24. Part VII: Redlichkeit and Embodied Wisdom
25. 15. Truth, Embodiment, and Probity (Redlichkeit) in Nietzsche 289
26. 16. When Wisdom Assumes Bodily Form 309
27. Index 329
28. Notes on contributors 349