Fate, time, and language : an essay on free will

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Fate, time, and language : an essay on free will

(2011)

By: Wallace, David Foster

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:

123/WALLACE,D

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Adult Nonfiction	123/WALLACE,D	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

New York : Columbia University Press, [2011]
©2011

DESCRIPTION

viii, 252 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

ISBN/ISSN

9780231151566 (cloth : alk. paper), 023115156X (cloth : alk. paper), 9780231151573 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0231151578 (pbk. : alk. paper), 0231151578 :

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

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