ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that constructivism can deliver a strong metaphysical bite. Constructivism appears to provide tenable responses to the argument from vagueness, arbitrariness arguments, the debunking argument, and the puzzle of indeterminate identity. Material constitution puzzles are abundant in the analytic metaphysics literature. Constructivist thinkers like Nietzsche tie metaphysics directly to ethics. Nietzsche recognizes that the consequences of a constructivist account of material entities could be liberating. The chapter aims to examine how Nietzsche's material object metaphysics might figure into contemporary analytic philosophical debates. Nietzschean constructivism can provide an overlooked response to the argument from vagueness. Constructivism therefore seems to provide a nice response to the argument concerning indeterminate identity. The identity conditions of being a hammer are constituted by the collection of properties that constitute the correct application conditions of the concept of being a hammer.
