Freedom and the self
Subtitle: essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace
By: edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9780231161534; 9780231161527
Subjects: Fate and fatalism; Semantics
Description: The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In this anthology, notable philosophers engage directly with that work and assess Wallace's reply to Taylor as well as other aspects of Wallace's thought.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: David Foster Wallace and the fallacies of fatalism / William Hasker; title: Wallace, free choice, and fatalism / Gila Sher; title: Fatalism and the metaphysics of contingency / M. Oreste Fiocco; title: Fatalism, time travel, and system J / Maureen Eckert; title: David Foster Wallace as American hedgehog / Daniel R. Kelley; title: David Foster Wallace on the good life / Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi.