Fate, Time, and Language
An Essay on Free Will
The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Pale King and Infinite Jest weighs in on a philosophical controversy in this fascinating early work. 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 world, but also detected a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument.Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's brilliant critique of Taylor's work. Written long before the publication of his fiction an…
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- ISBN: 978-0-231-52707-1
- EAN: 9780231527071
- Produktnummer: 22651455
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Seitenangabe: 263 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 519 KB
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David Foster Wallace. Edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert. Introduction by James Ryerson and epilogue by Jay Garfield
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