Symposium on Justin Remhof’s Nietzsche’s Constructivism: a Metaphysics of Material Objects (Routledge, 2018)

Nietzsche: Metaphysician

“…He appeals to what can be empirically confirmed (for NMC see BGE 134; GM I: 2, 4; for MC see HH I: 16; TI ‘Reason’ 3). And he commonly assumes and endorses the legitimacy of theoretical virtues, like scope, simplicity, and pragmatic applicability (see Remhof 2018: 69 n. 25). These methodological tools are in play throughout his corpus, in both metaphysical and non-metaphysical contexts.…”

“…Metaphysics need not be about what ultimately exists. Finally, I have claimed that metaphysical philosophy addresses ‘the way the world is’ (Remhof 2017: 2) and makes ‘general claims about the nature of reality’ (Remhof 2018: 3). Yet, science does this too, and so again more is needed.…”

“…By ‘positive’ I mean that Nietzsche endorses some metaphysical claims, and by ‘systematic’ I mean that Nietzsche more or less regularly endorses such claims. Those who interpret Nietzsche to have such a project include, among others, Kaufmann (1974), Heidegger (1987), Schacht (1983), Richardson (1996), Hales and Welshon (2000), Remhof (2018), and Doyle (2018). Let this be called the metaphysical reading .…”

Nietzsche as Metaphysician

“…Before this present book, Remhof already wrote about another possibility of Nietzsche's trait of metaphysical philosophy. It was to render Nietzsche a constructivist theorist on the consideration of material object metaphysics (Remhof, 2018). However, in this present book, Remhof turns to the other side of the same consideration of Nietzsche's metaphysics which is more about its methodology of reading so-called metaphysical issues and of doing philosophy with an aid of metaphysical process of argumentation (p.1).…”