Fate, Time, and Language : : An Essay on Free Will /

Fate, Time, and Language : : An Essay on Free Will / / David Wallace; ed. by Steven Cahn, Maureen Eckert.

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical wor...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
VerfasserIn:
Wallace, David,
MitwirkendeR:
Abelson, Raziel,
Aune, Bruce,
Brown, Charles D.,
Cahn, Steven M.,
Cahn, Steven,
Eckert, Maureen,
Garfield, Jay,
Makepeace, Peter,
Ryerson, James,
Saunders, John Turk,
Sharvy, Richard,
Taylor, Richard,
Wallace, David Foster,
HerausgeberIn:
Cahn, Steven,
Eckert, Maureen,
TeilnehmendeR:
Garfield, Jay L.
Ryerson, James.
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (264 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • PART I. THE BACKGROUND
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. FATALISM
  • 2. PROFESSOR TAYLOR ON FATALISM
  • 3. FATALISM AND ABILITY
  • 4. FATALISM AND ABILITY II
  • 5. FATALISM AND LINGUISTIC REFORM
  • 6. FATALISM AND PROFESSOR TAYLOR
  • 7. TAYLOR'S FATAL FALLACY
  • 8. A NOTE ON FATALISM
  • 9. TAUTOLOGY AND FATALISM
  • 10. FATALISTIC ARGUMENTS
  • 11. COMMENT
  • 12. FATALISM AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE
  • 13. FALLACIES IN TAYLOR'S "FATALISM"
  • PART II. THE ESSAY
  • 14. RENEWING THE FATALIST CONVERSATION
  • 15. RICHARD TAYLOR'S "FATALISM" AND THE SEMANTICS OF PHYSICAL MODALITY
  • PART III. EPILOGUE
  • 16. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE AS STUDENT: A MEMOIR
  • APPENDIX: THE PROBLEM OF FUTURE CONTINGENCIES

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