LEADER 04656nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910791569603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-89788-8 010 $a9786612897887 010 $a0-231-52707-1 024 7 $a10.7312/wall15156 035 $a(CKB)2560000000053836 035 $a(EBL)908198 035 $a(OCoLC)818855814 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000436447 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12127399 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000436447 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10427101 035 $a(PQKB)10393141 035 $a(DE-B1597)459420 035 $a(OCoLC)979574505 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780231527071 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL908198 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10429900 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL289788 035 $a(OCoLC)694147464 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC908198 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000053836 100 $a20100604d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aFate, time, and language$b[electronic resource] $ean essay on free will : David Foster Wallace /$fedited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert; introduction by James Ryerson ; epilogue by Jay Garfield 210 $aNew York $cColumbia University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $a"Richard Taylor's 'Fatalism' and the semantics of physical modality". 311 $a0-231-15157-8 311 $a0-231-15156-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE /$rCahn, Steven M. / Eckert, Maureen --$tINTRODUCTION /$rRyerson, James --$tPART I. THE BACKGROUND --$tINTRODUCTION /$rCahn, Steven M. --$t1. FATALISM /$rTaylor, Richard --$t2. PROFESSOR TAYLOR ON FATALISM /$rSaunders, John Turk --$t3. FATALISM AND ABILITY /$rTaylor, Richard --$t4. FATALISM AND ABILITY II /$rMakepeace, Peter --$t5. FATALISM AND LINGUISTIC REFORM /$rSaunders, John Turk --$t6. FATALISM AND PROFESSOR TAYLOR /$rAune, Bruce --$t7. TAYLOR'S FATAL FALLACY /$rAbelson, Raziel --$t8. A NOTE ON FATALISM /$rTaylor, Richard --$t9. TAUTOLOGY AND FATALISM /$rSharvy, Richard --$t10. FATALISTIC ARGUMENTS /$rCahn, Steven --$t11. COMMENT /$rTaylor, Richard --$t12. FATALISM AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE /$rSaunders, John Turk --$t13. FALLACIES IN TAYLOR'S "FATALISM" /$rBrown, Charles D. --$tPART II. THE ESSAY --$t14. RENEWING THE FATALIST CONVERSATION /$rEckert, Maureen --$t15. RICHARD TAYLOR'S "FATALISM" AND THE SEMANTICS OF PHYSICAL MODALITY /$rWallace, David Foster --$tPART III. EPILOGUE --$t16. DAVID FOSTER WALLACE AS STUDENT: A MEMOIR /$rGarfield, Jay --$tAPPENDIX: THE PROBLEM OF FUTURE CONTINGENCIES /$rTaylor, Richard 330 $aIn 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 noted 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 and essays, Wallace's thesis reveals his great skepticism of abstract thinking made to function as a negation of something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of certain paradigms of thought-the cerebral aestheticism of modernism, the clever gimmickry of postmodernism-that abandoned "the very old traditional human verities that have to do with spirituality and emotion and community." As Wallace rises to meet the challenge to free will presented by Taylor, we witness the developing perspective of this major novelist, along with his struggle to establish solid logical ground for his convictions. This volume, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert, reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace. James Ryerson's introduction connects Wallace's early philosophical work to the themes and explorations of his later fiction, and Jay Garfield supplies a critical biographical epilogue. 606 $aFate and fatalism 606 $aSemantics 615 0$aFate and fatalism. 615 0$aSemantics. 676 $a123 700 $aWallace$b David, $0222690 701 $aCahn$b Steven M$045514 701 $aEckert$b Maureen$f1966-$01582646 701 2$aWallace$b David Foster$0603840 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791569603321 996 $aFate, time, and language$93865169 997 $aUNINA