The Science and Philosophy of the "Thermodynamic School" of Evolution
This book was written by Maudemarie Clark and David Dudrick and published in 2012. The authors provide a comprehensive interpretation of Nietzsche’s book Beyond Good and Evil. In this book, Nietzsche provides his famous argument for the concept of the will to power, the version that applies to biotic and abiotic systems. Clark has argued…
This paper was written by Maudemarie Clark and published in 2000. In it, Clark seeks to clarify and improve the position on the will to power that she initially argued for 17 years earlier in her paper “Nietzsche’s Doctrines of the Will to Power” (1983), where she argued that we should view Nietzsche’s ontological doctrine…
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This paper was written by Maudemarie Clark and published in 1983. In the first paragraph of this paper, she writes: “There is an apparent contradiction between Nietzsche’s view of knowledge and what I shall call his ontological doctrine of the will to power, the doctrine that the world is will to power. The proposal I…
This book was written by Maudemarie Clark and published in 1990. In the preface, she writes: “Nietzsche says much about truth that is interesting and quite influential. As I argue in Chapter 1, it is also problematic and perhaps even self-contradictory. In this study I attempt to make sense of it, and I emphasize aspects…