Mattia Riccardi
Biographic Data
| ID | 462227 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mattia Riccardi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mattia |
| FAMILY NAME | Riccardi |
| SIGNATURE | RICCARDI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade do Porto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8467-9457 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Nietzsche on Consciousness
This article replies to Max Minden Ribeiro’s critique of the view of consciousness I attribute to Nietzsche in my 2021 monograph, Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology, and to João Constâncio’s comments on that critique, in which he agrees with several of Minden Ribeiro’s conclusions and raises his own questions about my reading of Nietzsche on the social character of reflective consciousness. First, this article argues that Minden Ribeiro’s same-…
Nietzsche’s Ethics
Thomas Stern sets out his approach in this “Cambridge Element” on Nietzsche’s ethics in a bold and straightforward way: “My own intention is to stay very close to the texts, to read them in light of what we know about Nietzsche’s intellectual background, and to present the philosophical ideas found in them as clearly, neutrally and thoroughly as possible” (3). As a result, Stern guesses, the “Nietzsche on display in these pages may seem, in place…
Plato and Nietzsche on the Ideal Soul
Nietzsche scholars have remarked on the similarities between his conception of the ideal soul and that of Plato. This article provides a systematic examination of this issue. The first part of the article demonstrates that there is in fact a substantive convergence between their views. However, this result is puzzling given that Nietzsche accuses Plato’s moral psychology of being deeply ascetic. Thus, the second part of the article focuses on thi…
Sameness beyond numerical identity. A defence of the One Object View of Kant ́s transcendental idealism
Some Kant scholars argue that appearances and things in themselves are distinct things (Two Objects View). Others argue that they are the same things (One Object View). This last view is often understood as the claim that appearances and things in themselves are numerically identical (Numerical Identity). However, Walker (2010) and Stang (2014) show that Numerical Identity clashes against Kant’s claim that we lack knowledge of things in themselve…
Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology
The book offers a systematic account of Nietzsche's philosophical psychology. The main theme is the nature of and relation between unconscious and conscious mind. Whereas Nietzsche takes consciousness to be a mere 'surface'-as he writes in Ecce Homo-that evolved in the course of human socialization, he sees the bedrock of human psychology as constituted by unconscious drives and affects. But how does he conceive of such basic psychological items …
Perceptual presence
Virtuous homunculi
The primary explanatory items of Nietzsche’s philosophical psychology are the drives. Such drives, he holds, are arranged hierarchically in virtue of their entering dominance-obedience relations analogous to those obtaining in human societies. This view is puzzling for two reasons. First, Nietzsche’s idea of a hierarchical order among the drives is far from clear. Second, as it postulates relations among subpersonal items that mimic those among p…
Psychological Nihilism, Passions, and Neglected Works
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The…
The Nietzschean Self
Although Nietzsche famously declares that “psychology is again the path to the fundamental problems” (BGE 23), scholars have traditionally paid only marginal attention to his philosophical psychology. With a series of articles published over the past ten years or so, Paul Katsafanas has contributed to a welcome refocus. The Nietzschean Self presents systematically, and sometimes supplements, the claims put forward in these earlier pieces. The res…
Inner Opacity. Nietzsche on Introspection and Agency
Nietzsche believes that we do not know our own actions, nor their real motives. This belief, however, is but a consequence of his assuming a quite general skepticism about introspection. The main aim of this paper is to offer a reading of this last view, which I shall call the Inner Opacity (IO) view. In the first part of the paper I show that a strong motivation behind IO lies in Nietzsche’s claim that self-knowledge exploits the same set of cog…
Nietzsches Philosophie des Unbewussten
Nietzsches Philosophie des Unbewussten, the third volume in De Gruyter's recently launched Nietzsche Heute/Nietzsche Today series, collects more than twenty articles ostensibly devoted to the theme of the unconscious in Nietzsche's philosophy. However, it is not always easy to determine what each article contributes to the volume topic. This may reflect the fact that the chapters derive from the 2011 conference of the Nietzsche-Gesellschaft, whic…
Nietzsche’s Critique of Kant’s Thing in Itself
This paper investigates the argument that substantiates Nietzsche's refusal of teh Kantian concept of thing in itself. As Maudmarie Clark points out, Nietzsche dismisses this notion because he views it as self-contradictory. The main concern of the paper will be to account for this position. In particular, the two main theses defended here are that the argument underlying Nietzsche's claim is that the concept of thing in itself amounts to the inc…
Claudia Rosciglione, Homo Natura. Autoregolazione e caos nel pensiero di Nietzsche , Pisa
Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology
The book offers a systematic account of Nietzsche's philosophical psychology. The main theme is the nature of and relation between unconscious and conscious mind. Whereas Nietzsche takes consciousness to be a mere 'surface'-as he writes in Ecce Homo-that evolved in the course of human socialization, he sees the bedrock of human psychology as constituted by unconscious drives and affects. But how does he conceive of such basic psychological items …
Claudia Rosciglione, Homo Natura. Autoregolazione e caos nel pensiero di Nietzsche , Pisa
Nietzsche’s Critique of Kant’s Thing in Itself
This paper investigates the argument that substantiates Nietzsche's refusal of teh Kantian concept of thing in itself. As Maudmarie Clark points out, Nietzsche dismisses this notion because he views it as self-contradictory. The main concern of the paper will be to account for this position. In particular, the two main theses defended here are that the argument underlying Nietzsche's claim is that the concept of thing in itself amounts to the inc…
Nietzsches Philosophie des Unbewussten
Nietzsches Philosophie des Unbewussten, the third volume in De Gruyter's recently launched Nietzsche Heute/Nietzsche Today series, collects more than twenty articles ostensibly devoted to the theme of the unconscious in Nietzsche's philosophy. However, it is not always easy to determine what each article contributes to the volume topic. This may reflect the fact that the chapters derive from the 2011 conference of the Nietzsche-Gesellschaft, whic…
Inner Opacity. Nietzsche on Introspection and Agency
Nietzsche believes that we do not know our own actions, nor their real motives. This belief, however, is but a consequence of his assuming a quite general skepticism about introspection. The main aim of this paper is to offer a reading of this last view, which I shall call the Inner Opacity (IO) view. In the first part of the paper I show that a strong motivation behind IO lies in Nietzsche’s claim that self-knowledge exploits the same set of cog…
The Nietzschean Self
Although Nietzsche famously declares that “psychology is again the path to the fundamental problems” (BGE 23), scholars have traditionally paid only marginal attention to his philosophical psychology. With a series of articles published over the past ten years or so, Paul Katsafanas has contributed to a welcome refocus. The Nietzschean Self presents systematically, and sometimes supplements, the claims put forward in these earlier pieces. The res…
Virtuous homunculi
The primary explanatory items of Nietzsche’s philosophical psychology are the drives. Such drives, he holds, are arranged hierarchically in virtue of their entering dominance-obedience relations analogous to those obtaining in human societies. This view is puzzling for two reasons. First, Nietzsche’s idea of a hierarchical order among the drives is far from clear. Second, as it postulates relations among subpersonal items that mimic those among p…
Psychological Nihilism, Passions, and Neglected Works
This essay is one of ten contributions to a special editorial feature in The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 49.2 (Autumn 2018), in which authors were invited to address the following questions: What is the future of Nietzsche studies? What are the most pressing questions its scholars should address? What texts and issues demand our urgent attention? And as we turn to these issues, what methodological and interpretive principles should guide us? The…
Perceptual presence
Nietzsche's Philosophical Psychology
The book offers a systematic account of Nietzsche's philosophical psychology. The main theme is the nature of and relation between unconscious and conscious mind. Whereas Nietzsche takes consciousness to be a mere 'surface'-as he writes in Ecce Homo-that evolved in the course of human socialization, he sees the bedrock of human psychology as constituted by unconscious drives and affects. But how does he conceive of such basic psychological items …
Sameness beyond numerical identity. A defence of the One Object View of Kant ́s transcendental idealism
Some Kant scholars argue that appearances and things in themselves are distinct things (Two Objects View). Others argue that they are the same things (One Object View). This last view is often understood as the claim that appearances and things in themselves are numerically identical (Numerical Identity). However, Walker (2010) and Stang (2014) show that Numerical Identity clashes against Kant’s claim that we lack knowledge of things in themselve…
Nietzsche’s Ethics
Thomas Stern sets out his approach in this “Cambridge Element” on Nietzsche’s ethics in a bold and straightforward way: “My own intention is to stay very close to the texts, to read them in light of what we know about Nietzsche’s intellectual background, and to present the philosophical ideas found in them as clearly, neutrally and thoroughly as possible” (3). As a result, Stern guesses, the “Nietzsche on display in these pages may seem, in place…
Plato and Nietzsche on the Ideal Soul
Nietzsche scholars have remarked on the similarities between his conception of the ideal soul and that of Plato. This article provides a systematic examination of this issue. The first part of the article demonstrates that there is in fact a substantive convergence between their views. However, this result is puzzling given that Nietzsche accuses Plato’s moral psychology of being deeply ascetic. Thus, the second part of the article focuses on thi…
Nietzsche on Consciousness
This article replies to Max Minden Ribeiro’s critique of the view of consciousness I attribute to Nietzsche in my 2021 monograph, Nietzsche’s Philosophical Psychology, and to João Constâncio’s comments on that critique, in which he agrees with several of Minden Ribeiro’s conclusions and raises his own questions about my reading of Nietzsche on the social character of reflective consciousness. First, this article argues that Minden Ribeiro’s same-…
Philosophy (13 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (11 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (5 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (4 works) · Cognitive science (3 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works)