Nietzsche's Philosophy of Science:

Reflecting Science on the Ground of Art and Life

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments

Introduction

pp.1-3: Prologue: The Problem of the Philosophy of Science and Nietzsche's Question of Ground

pp. 3-14: The Plan of the Text

 

Chapter 1: Nietzsche's Musical Stylistics: Writing a Philosophy of Science

pp.15-19: The Hermeneutic Challenge of Nietzsche's Elitism: Style and Interpretive Affinity

pp. 19-22: Philosophic Concinnity: The Spirit of Music and Nietzschean Style

pp. 22-26: The Project of Communication: Self-Deconstruction and Nietzschean Selectivity

pp. 26-32: Nietzsche's Style: A Mechanical Model

Chapter 2: Science as Interpretation: The Light of Philology

pp. 35-37: The Question of a Nietzsche-Styled Philosophy of Science

pp. 37-46: Towards a Nietzschean Critique of Science

pp. 46-49: Nietzsche's Perspectivalism: The Spectre of Relativism and the Spirit of Difference

pp.49-57: Truth, Pragmatism, and Relativism: Realism and the Real

pp. 57-61: The Meaning of Critique: Nietzschean Possibilities for Philosophy

pp. 61-65: Nietzsche and Science: The Question of Validity

Chapter 3: On the Eco-Physiological Ground of Knowledge: Nietzsche's Epistemology

pp. 77-83: The Question of Nietzsche's Epistemology: Critique and Ground

pp. 83-87: The Knower and the Known

pp. 87-94: The Problem of Knowledge in its Eco-Physiological Ground

pp. 94-100: The Empirical Basis of Transcendent Knowledge

pp. 100-107: Perspectivalism as Epistemology

pp. 107-109: Multiplicity as Interpretational Truth: The Metaphysical Fiction of an Absolute

pp. 109-112: A Note on the Typology of Science and Philosophy: The Will to Power

pp. 112-120: Beyond Truth and Lie

Chapter 4: Under the Optics of Art and Life: Nietzsche and Science

pp. 135-136: Resumé: the Ecophysiological Ground of Knowlege

pp. 136-140: Science and Nihilism

pp. 140:146: Reality and Truth: The Domination of Truth

pp. 146-152: The Meaning of Nature and Chaos: A Note on Nietzsche's "Chaos sive natura"

pp. 152-158: Reality and Illusion: The Interpretive Dynamic

Chapter 5: Nietzsche's Genealogy of Science: Morality and the Values of Modernity

pp. 175-179: The Genealogy of Morals and the Value of Science

pp. 179-187: The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation

pp. 187-194: Without Price: The Will to Truth as the Will to Life

pp. 194-196: Science and Inadequacy

pp. 196-200: Duplicity: Science and the Ascetic Ideal

pp. 200-203: The Ascetic Ideal: The Cost of Perpetuation

pp. 206-209: Science as an Aesthetic Achievement: Méconnaissance

Pp. 209-213: Vesuvius: "Gefährdete Menschen, fruchtbarer Menschen"

Chapter 6: Toward Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth

pp. 227-230: A Perspectivlist Philosophy of Science

pp. 230-235: A Perspectival Aesthetics of Truth

pp. 235-238: Truth as Illusion

pp. 238-243: The Illusion of Truth and the Question of the Eternal Feminine

pp. 243-245: Contra-Morality -- Again

pp. 245-251: The Aesthetics of Illusion

pp. 251-254: Creation and Affirmation

Chapter 7: A Dionysian Philosophy: Art in the Light of Life

pp. 261-266: The Eternal Return of the Same: Interpretation and Will

pp. 266-271: Ressentiment and Amor Fati

pp. 271-276: The Perspectival Dominion of Decadence

pp. 276-284: Dionysian Aesthetic Pessimism

pp. 284-311: The Troping of Eternal Return: An Aposematic Aposiopesis