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2015

Format:	Book
Title:	Freedom and the self : essays on the philosophy of David Foster Wallace / edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Description:	x, 179 pages ; 21 cm
Summary:	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.
Subjects:	Wallace, David Foster. Taylor, Richard, 1919-2003. Fate and fatalism. Semantics.
Other Author:	Cahn, Steven M., editor. Eckert, Maureen, 1966- editor.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:	David Foster Wallace and the fallacies of fatalism / William Hasker -- Wallace, free choice, and fatalism / Gila Sher -- Fatalism and the metaphysics of contingency / M. Oreste Fiocco -- Fatalism, time travel, and system J / Maureen Eckert -- David Foster Wallace as American hedgehog / Daniel R. Kelley -- David Foster Wallace on the good life / Nathan Ballantyne and Justin Tosi.
LCCN:	2014035372
ISBN:	9780231161527 0231161522 9780231161534 0231161530
Other Number:	898066512
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Call Number:	191 Freedom

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