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In recent years, Nietzsche's views on (natural) science attracted a considerable amount of scholarly attention. Overall, his attitude towards science tends to be one of suspicion, or ambivalence at least. My article addresses the "Nietzsche and science" theme from a slightly different perspective, raising a somewhat different type of question, more pragmatic if you like, namely: how to be a Nietzschean philosopher of science today? What would the methodological contours of a Nietzschean approach to present-day research areas (such as neuroscience, astrophysics, synthetic biology or climate studies) amount to? In other words, my paper reflects a shift of focus from author studies to extrapolation. The design of my article is as follows. I will start with the question (already widely discussed in the expert literature) to what extent Friedrich Nietzsche (a classical philologist by training) managed to familiarise himself with the natural sciences of his epoch. Subsequently, I will outline some basic methodological and conceptual ingredients of Nietzsche's philosophy of science, focussing on core issues such as "genealogy", "interpretation", "enhancement" and "truth". Next, I will elu

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Author

Zwart, Hub

Publisher

Springer; Springer-Verlag; Springer Netherlands; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1233-1821)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Physical Sciences)