Tsarina Doyle

Tsarina Doyle is interested in how historical approaches to epistemology, metaphysics and value intersect with contemporary debates. She is the author ofNietzsches Metaphysics of the Will to Power: The Possibility of Value(Cambridge University Press 2018 pbk. 2020) andNietzsche on Epistemology and Metaphysics: The World in View(Edinburgh University Press, 2009). She is also the primary editor of the Values and Identities book series published by Rowman and Littlefield International. She contributes to the the following research clusters in Philosophy at the University of Galway: Philosophy of Science, Environmental Ethics, Philosophy of Technology and MetaphysicsPhilosophy of Culture, Philosophy of Religion, Political Philosophy and Meta-ethics

My research interests include epistemology and metaphysics in modern philosophy with particular emphasis on Kant and Nietzsche. I am especially interested in how these historically situated approaches intersect with contemporary debates. Through my work on Nietzsches will to power thesis and his critical engagement with Kant, I have developed a strong interest in the metaphysics of causal powers and dispositions in both an historical and contemporary context. I am currently exploring issues of essentialism and non-essentialism, naturalism and causality in Nietzsches metaphysics.I have previously examined how Nietzsches metaphysics, meta-ethics and philosophical psychology contribute to contemporary debates aroundanti-realist and realist approaches to value.I also have an interest in issues pertaining to the metaphysics of value, more broadly. Drawing on the resources of historical and contemporary perspectives, I explorequestions surrounding the phenomenology of value and what kind of property, if any, a value might be and whether the metaphysics of dispositions can assist in answering this question.My research interests dovetail with my role as primary editor of the Values and Identities series published by Rowman and Littlefield International:a target=_blank rel=nofollow href=https:rowman.comActionSERIES_RLIVAIhttps:rowman.comActionSERIES_RLIVAI I am currently supervising doctoral students writing on the value of knowledge problem, in addition to projects on both Nietzsches metaphysics and his philosophy of mind, freedom and agency.

I currently teach the following modules: Kants Theoretical Philosophy (final year undergraduate) American Pragmatism (final year undergraduate) Nietzsche and Philosophy (second year undergraduate) History of Modern Philosophy (second year undergraduate) Value and Knowledge in Modernity (postgraduate) Philosophy seminar: participation and management (postgraduate)