Fate, Time, and Language : An Essay on Free Will.
Başlık:
Fate, Time, and Language : An Essay on Free Will.
Yazar:
Wallace, David Foster.
ISBN:
9780231527071
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (176 pages)
İçerik:
Title Page -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- PART I - THE BACKGROUND -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 - FATALISM -- NOTES -- 2 - PROFESSOR TAYLOR ON FATALISM -- NOTE -- 3 - FATALISM AND ABILITY -- NOTES -- 4 - FATALISM AND ABILITY II -- NOTES -- 5 - FATALISM AND LINGUISTIC REFORM -- NOTE -- 6 - FATALISM AND PROFESSOR TAYLOR -- NOTES -- 7 - TAYLOR'S FATAL FALLACY -- NOTES -- 8 - A NOTE ON FATALISM -- NOTES -- 9 - TAUTOLOGY AND FATALISM -- NOTES -- 10 - FATALISTIC ARGUMENTS -- NOTES -- 11 - COMMENT -- NOTES -- 12 - FATALISM AND ORDINARY LANGUAGE -- NOTES -- 13 - FALLACIES IN TAYLOR'S "FATALISM" -- NOTES -- PART II - THE ESSAY -- 14 - RENEWING THE FATALIST CONVERSATION -- NOTES -- 15 - RICHARD TAYLOR'S "FATALISM" AND THE SEMANTICS OF PHYSICAL MODALITY -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. INTRODUCTION TO THE TAYLOR PROBLEM AND ITS CONTEXT -- II. THE TAYLOR LITERATURE: SOME PROMINENT REPLIES TO TAYLOR, AND WHY THEY ... -- III. INTRODUCTION TO THE TAYLOR INEQUIVALENCE. -- IV. ARGUMENT FOR THE TAYLOR INEQUIVALENCE. -- V. A FORMAL DEVICE FOR REPRESENTING AND EXPLAINING THE TAYLOR INEQUIVALENCE: ... -- VI. FURTHER APPLICATIONS OF SYSTEM J TO ANALYSES OF PROBLEMS INVOLVING PHYSICAL ... -- VII. CONCLUSION: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE MODERN FATALISTIC ARGUMENT. -- NOTES -- PART III - EPILOGUE -- 16 - DAVID FOSTER WALLACE AS STUDENT: A MEMOIR -- APPENDIX - THE PROBLEM OF FUTURE CONTINGENCIES -- Copyright Page.
Özet:
Long before he published Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote a brilliant critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In 1962, Taylor used six commonly-accepted presuppositions to imply that humans have no control over the future. Not only did Wallace take issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but he also called out a semantic trick that lie at the heart of Taylor's argument. Wallace was a great skeptic of abstract thinking as a negation of something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of certain theoretical paradigms& mdash;the cerebral aestheticism of modernism, the clever gimmickry of postmodernism& mdash;that abandoned "the very old traditional human verities that have to do with spirituality and emotion and community." As Wallace rises up to meet the challenge of Taylor (not to mention a number of other philosophical heavyweights), we watch the perspective of a major novelist develop, along with a lifelong struggle to find solid ground for his soaring convictions. This volume reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique. James Ryerson, an editor at the New York Times Magazine, draws parallels in his introduction between Wallace's philosophy and fiction.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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