David Dudrick
Biographic Data
| ID | 5969015 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Dudrick |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Dudrick |
| SIGNATURE | DUDRICK D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Colgate University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Why Didn’t Nietzsche Get His Act Together
Although Elijah Millgram identifies analytic philosophers as his “tribe,” he doesn’t have much use for the analytically competent work that has sparked the widely recognized improvement of Nietzsche scholarship over the last several decades. Such work, he complains, tends not to recognize that Nietzsche “writes funny” (2). It reads him “straight,” reconstructing his books on the “deeply misguided” assumption that he actually had views or beliefs.…
Defending Nietzsche's Soul
We respond here to criticisms of our book, The Soul of Nietzsche's “Beyond Good and Evil” offered by contributors to the Symposium on it in JNS 45.1 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jnietstud.45.1.0031]: We defend our interpretation of Plato's soul, and of Plato's reason as “atomistic,” and argue that these points help explain how Nietzsche's theory of the soul can be a refinement of Plato's tripartite account. We defend our account of what w…
Beyond Good and Evil
The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
This book presents a provocative new interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil, arguably Nietzsche's most important work. The problem is that it appears to express merely a loosely connected set of often questionable opinions. Can Nietzsche really be an important philosopher if this is his most important book? Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick address this question with a close reading that emphasizes how Nietzsche writes. They argue that the first…
Nietzsche on the Will
Nietzsche is commonly thought to endorse a version of naturalism that debunks the traditional conception of the will; he is thought to deny that willing brings about or causes actions. BGE 19 is interpreted as supporting this understanding of Nietzsche, and Brian Leiter has so interpreted it. This chapter offers an alternative to Leiter's reading of BGE 19, which shows that while it sets out to debunk something about the traditional notion of the…
Nietzsche and Moral Objectivity
This essay begins from the uncontroversial assumption that Nietzsche holds certain ethical or moral values and expresses them in his work. Its question is whether his philosophy allows him to claim objectivity for these values. Many have thought that his metaethical position prohibits him from doing so, that it entails, in Brian Leiter’s words, a denial that “there is any objective vindication for his [or any other] evaluative position.” As Leite…
Foucault, Butler, and the Body
Nietzsche's Post‐Positivism
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Nietzsche's Post‐Positivism
Foucault, Butler, and the Body
Nietzsche and Moral Objectivity
This essay begins from the uncontroversial assumption that Nietzsche holds certain ethical or moral values and expresses them in his work. Its question is whether his philosophy allows him to claim objectivity for these values. Many have thought that his metaethical position prohibits him from doing so, that it entails, in Brian Leiter’s words, a denial that “there is any objective vindication for his [or any other] evaluative position.” As Leite…
Nietzsche on the Will
Nietzsche is commonly thought to endorse a version of naturalism that debunks the traditional conception of the will; he is thought to deny that willing brings about or causes actions. BGE 19 is interpreted as supporting this understanding of Nietzsche, and Brian Leiter has so interpreted it. This chapter offers an alternative to Leiter's reading of BGE 19, which shows that while it sets out to debunk something about the traditional notion of the…
The Soul of Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil
This book presents a provocative new interpretation of Beyond Good and Evil, arguably Nietzsche's most important work. The problem is that it appears to express merely a loosely connected set of often questionable opinions. Can Nietzsche really be an important philosopher if this is his most important book? Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick address this question with a close reading that emphasizes how Nietzsche writes. They argue that the first…
Beyond Good and Evil
Defending Nietzsche's Soul
We respond here to criticisms of our book, The Soul of Nietzsche's “Beyond Good and Evil” offered by contributors to the Symposium on it in JNS 45.1 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jnietstud.45.1.0031]: We defend our interpretation of Plato's soul, and of Plato's reason as “atomistic,” and argue that these points help explain how Nietzsche's theory of the soul can be a refinement of Plato's tripartite account. We defend our account of what w…
Why Didn’t Nietzsche Get His Act Together
Although Elijah Millgram identifies analytic philosophers as his “tribe,” he doesn’t have much use for the analytically competent work that has sparked the widely recognized improvement of Nietzsche scholarship over the last several decades. Such work, he complains, tends not to recognize that Nietzsche “writes funny” (2). It reads him “straight,” reconstructing his books on the “deeply misguided” assumption that he actually had views or beliefs.…
Philosophy (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, and Hegel (5 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (3 works) · Soul (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Interpretation (philosophy) (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Power (physics) (2 works)