Nietzsche and Anthropomorphism

Nietzsche

Der 'Nietzsche-Thesaurus' des Nietzsche-Online-Portals

The ‚Nietzsche-Thesaurus’ ist part of an Internet-Portal to the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (under construction). By using the complex Index of a Citation Lexicon (print version) and combining it with the lexikal data and structure of the ‘Deutscher Wortschatz’ (Wehrle/Eggers, a kind of transformation of the Roget’s Thesaurus), a relational access system is developed. Concept and Sta...

Nietzsche and Contemporary Metaethics

1I use the following standard acronyms when citing Nietzsche’s texts: TheAntichrist (A); Beyond Good and Evil (BGE);TheBirth of Tragedy (BT);TheCase ofWagner (CW);Daybreak (D); Ecce Homo (EH); On the Genealogy of Morality (GM); The Gay Science (GS); Human, All-Too-Human (HH); Nietzsche contra Wagner (NCW); Twilight of the Idols (TI); Untimely Meditations (UM); Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Z). I cite...

Robots and Anthropomorphism

Our natural tendency to anthropomorphism, grounded in Theory of Mind and related psychological mechanisms, is crucial to our interactions with robots. Some relatively superficial aspects of robots (e.g. physical appearance) can trigger animistic, even empathetic, responses on the part of human beings. Other factors are more subtle, e.g. various aspects of the language (if any) used by the artif...

Anthropomorphism Revisited

The MIT scientist Donald Griffin, widely-recognized for his experimental confirmation that bats use echo location in tracking insects and avoiding obstacles in the dark (Griffin, 1958/1974), later wrote widely defending the view that other animals are consciously aware and intelligent, like humans (Griffin, 1976, 2001). Based on the assumption that an example of possible human-like cleverness i...