Nietzsche on Truth: a Pragmatic View?

In Renate Reschke (ed.), Wirklich. Wirklichkeit. Wirklichkeiten? Friedrich Nietzsche über 'wahre' und 'scheinbare' Welten, Nietzscheforschung Bd. 20. Akademie Verlag (2013)
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Abstract

In this paper I deal with Nietzsche's theory of knowledge in the context of 19th century epistemology. In particular, I argue that, even though Nietzsche shows the ontological lack of content of truths (both on the theoretic and on the moral plane), he nevertheless leaves the space for a practical use of them, in a way that can be compared with William James' pragmatism. I thus deal with Nietzsche's and James' concept of "truth", and show their relationship with some outcomes of Ernst Mach's epistemology.

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Pietro Gori
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

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