Freedom and the Self - Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace

Informationen zum Autor Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written or edited some fifty books! including Fate! Logic! and Time; God! Reason! and Religion; Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia; and From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor. Maureen Eckert is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She teaches courses in a variety of areas! including ancient Greek philosophy! logical paradoxes! and free will. With Steven M. Cahn! she edited Fate! Time! and Language: An Essay on Free Will. Klappentext The book Fate! Time! and Language: An Essay on Free Will! published in 2010 by Columbia University Press! presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In this anthology! notable philosophers engage directly with that work and assess Wallace's reply to Taylor as well as other aspects of Wallace's thought. These thinkers explore Wallace's philosophical and literary work! illustrating remarkable ways in which his philosophical views influenced and were influenced by themes developed in his other writings! both fictional and nonfictional. Together with Fate! Time! and Language! this critical set unlocks key components of Wallace's work and its traces in modern literature and thought. Zusammenfassung Contemporary philosophers assess the late author’s ideas on fatalism, free will, and art. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction! by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert1. David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of "Fatalism!" by William Hasker2. Wallace! Free Choice! and Fatalism! by Gila Sher3. Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency! by M. Oreste Fiocco4. Fatalism! Time Travel! and System J! by Maureen Eckert5. David Foster Wallace as American Hedgehog! by Daniel R. Kelly6. David Foster Wallace on the Good Life! by Nathan Ballantyne and Justin TosiList of ContributorsIndex ...

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• Authors: Steven M. Cahn, Maureen Eckert
• Assisted by: Steven M. Cahn (Editor), Cahn Steven M. (Editor), Maureen Eckert (Editor), Eckert Maureen (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.05.2015
• EAN: 9780231161534
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16153-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Analytic, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, fiction; philosophy