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lism. Knowledge of humanity depends on methods continuous with the sciences ? Obvious exemplar. David Hume Nietzsche on Naturalism ? We must “translate humanity back into nature” [so as to] “gain control of the many vain and fanciful interpretations that have been drawn and scribbled and that have drawn over that eternal basic text of homo natura so far” (BGE 230). ? Two aspects. Getting the correct account of human nature and then gaining control Methodological Naturalism ? Fallibilist Empiricism ? [T]he procedures of science are at least as important a product of inquiry as any other oute: for the scientific spirit rests upon an insight into the procedures, and if these were lost all the other products of science would not suffice to prevent a restoration of superstition and folly” (HAH 1, 635) ? [S]cientific methods . . . are the essential thing, as well as the most difficult thing” a certain “factual sense, the last and most valuable of all senses” (A 59). Methodological Naturalism II ? Leiter (2022) ‘methods continuity’ ? Nietzsche take[s] over from the sciences the idea that natural phenomena have determinate causes” (2022: 5) ? NB a speculative account of human nature characterized a posteriori. Not reductionism Substantive Naturalism ? What is the ‘nature’ of nature? ? The Will to Power, lumpers and splitters ? Nietzsche as translating humanity back into nature ? The human animal ? Hume again. Hume’s account of human nature drawn entirely from models of animal cognition ? The “whole sensitive creation . . . [e]very t