Fate, Time, and Language - An Essay on Free Will

Informationen zum Autor David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) wrote the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and the story collections Oblivion! Brief Interviews with Hideous Men! and Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes the essay collections Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and the full-length work Everything and More. Klappentext "Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the semantics of physical modality"--T.p. verso. Zusammenfassung "Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the semantics of physical modality"--T.p. verso. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface! by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen EckertIntroduction: A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The Philosophical Mind of David Foster Wallace! by James RyersonPart I: The Background Introduction! by Steven M. Cahn1. Fatalism! by Richard Taylor2. Professor Taylor on Fatalism! by John Turk Saunders3. Fatalism and Ability! by Richard Taylor4. Fatalism and Ability II! by Peter Makepeace5. Fatalism and Linguistic Reform! by John Turk Saunders6. Fatalism and Professor Taylor! by Bruce Aune7. Taylor's Fatal Fallacy! by Raziel Abelson8. A Note on Fatalism! by Richard Taylor9. Tautology and Fatalism! by Richard Sharvy10. Fatalistic Arguments! by Steven Cahn11. Comment! by Richard Taylor12. Fatalism and Ordinary Language! by John Turk Saunders13. Fallacies in Taylor's "Fatalism"! by Charles D. BrownPart II: The Essay 14. Renewing the Fatalist Conversation! by Maureen Eckert15. Richard Taylor's "Fatalism" and the Semantics of Physical Modality! by David Foster WallacePart III: Epilogue 16. David Foster Wallace as Student: A Memoir! by Jay GarfieldAppendix: The Problem of Future Contingencies! by Richard Taylor

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• Authors: David Wallace, David Foster Wallace
• Assisted by: Steven Cahn (Editor), Steven M. Cahn (Editor), Maureen Eckert (Editor), Maureen (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Eckert (Editor), Eckert Maureen (Editor), Ryerson James (Introduction), Garfield Jay L. (Afterword)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.12.2010
• EAN: 9780231151566
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15156-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; LITERARY CRITICISM / General, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Logic, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Literary studies: general, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: logic, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc