Title:
Fate, time, and language : an essay on free will / David Foster Wallace ; edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert ; introduction by James Ryerson ; epilogue by Jay Garfield.
Author:
Wallace, David Foster.
Cahn, Steven M.
Eckert, Maureen, 1966-
Wallace, David Foster. Richard Taylor's "Fatalism" and the semantics of physical modality.
Publication Information:
New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
Call Number:
BJ1461 .T293 W35 2011
ISBN:
9780231151566
9780231151573
9780231527071
Physical Description:
viii, 252 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Contents:
I: The background -- Introduction / Steven M. Cahn -- Fatalism / Richard Taylor -- Professor Taylor on fatalism / John Turk Saunders -- Fatalism and ability / Richard Taylor -- Fatalism and ability II / Peter Makepeace -- Fatalism and linguistic reform / John Turk Saunders -- Fatalism and Professor Taylor / Bruce Aune -- Taylor's fatal fallacy / Raziel Abelson -- A note on fatalism / Richard Taylor -- Tautology and fatalism / Richard Sharvy -- Fatalistic arguments / Steven Cahn -- Comment / Richard Taylor -- Fatalism and ordinary language / John Turk Saunders -- Fallacies in Taylor's "fatalism" / Charles D. Brown -- 2: The essay -- Renewing the fatalist conversation / Maureen Eckert -- Richard Taylor's "fatalism" and the semantics of physical modality / David Foster Wallace -- 3: Epilogue -- David Foster Wallace as student: a memoir / Jay Garfield.
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