Lo scetticismo epistemico di Nietzsche. Alcune considerazioni a partire da Lange

Friedrich Lange’s History of Materialism is one of the most important sources of inspiration for Nietzsche’s thought. In this paper, I would like to argue that this importance is not limited to the significant amount of information on the epistemological debate of their
time that Lange provides, but can also be assessed on a historical-philosophical level. That is, I will show that Lange makes it possible for Nietzsche to participate in a movement that takes care of the anti-realist consequences of Kantian phenomenalism and reflects on the actual limits of both common and scientific knowledge. That movement started in the early post-Kantian era and is still ongoing, counting prominent figures of the current debate in the philosophy of science among its representatives.