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.

• 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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Ämnesord

Fate and fatalism.  (LCSH)

Semantics.  (LCSH)

Namn/titel

Taylor, Richard, 1919-2003: Fatalism. 

Nyckelord

Heq.04 Skönlitteratur: amerikansk: essäer

Publikations- och innehållstyp

BJ1461.T293 (LCC)

123 (DDC)

Heq.04 (kssb/8)