Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
Online ISBN:
9780231539166
Print ISBN:
9780231161534
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Book
Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
Published:
21 April 2015
Online ISBN:
9780231539166
Print ISBN:
9780231161534
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Cite
Cahn, Steven, and Maureen Eckert (eds), Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace (New York, NY , 2015; online edn, Columbia Scholarship Online, 19 Nov. 2015), https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231161534.001.0001, accessed 16 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010, 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. The thinkers in this book explores Wallace's philosophical and literary work, illustrating remarkable ways in which his philosophical views influenced and were influenced by themes developed in his other writings, both fictional and nonfictional. This book unlocks key components of Wallace's work and its traces in modern literature and thought.
Keywords:
David Foster Wallace, Richard Taylor, fatalism, philosophical views, writing, fiction, nonfinction, modern literature, modern thought
Subject
Philosophy
Contents
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Front Matter
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1
David Foster Wallace and the Fallacies of “Fatalism”
William Hasker
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2
Wallace, Free Choice, and Fatalism
Gila Sher
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3
Fatalism and the Metaphysics of Contingency
M. Oreste Fiocco
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4
Fatalism, Time Travel, and System J
Maureen Eckert
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5
David Foster Wallace as American Hedgehog
Daniel R. Kelly
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6
David Foster Wallace on the Good Life
Nathan Ballantyne andJustin Tosi
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End Matter
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