Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will

David Foster Wallace, Edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert; Introduction by James Ryerson and Epilogue by Jay Garfield

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Paper, 264 pages,
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December, 2010
Cloth, 264 pages,
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Preface, by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert

Introduction: A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The Philosophical Mind of David Foster Wallace, by James Ryerson

Part I: The Background

Introduction, by Steven M. Cahn

1. Fatalism, by Richard Taylor

2. Professor Taylor on Fatalism, by John Turk Saunders

3. Fatalism and Ability, by Richard Taylor

4. Fatalism and Ability II, by Peter Makepeace

5. Fatalism and Linguistic Reform, by John Turk Saunders

6. Fatalism and Professor Taylor, by Bruce Aune

7. Taylor’s Fatal Fallacy, by Raziel Abelson

8. A Note on Fatalism, by Richard Taylor

9. Tautology and Fatalism, by Richard Sharvy

10. Fatalistic Arguments, by Steven Cahn

11. Comment, by Richard Taylor

12. Fatalism and Ordinary Language, by John Turk Saunders

13. Fallacies in Taylor’s "Fatalism", by Charles D. Brown

Part II: The Essay

14. Renewing the Fatalist Conversation, by Maureen Eckert

15. Richard Taylor’s "Fatalism" and the Semantics of Physical Modality, by David Foster Wallace

Part III: Epilogue

16. David Foster Wallace as Student: A Memoir, by Jay Garfield

Appendix: The Problem of Future Contingencies, by Richard Taylor

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About the Author

David Foster Wallace (1962-2008) wrote the acclaimed novels Infinite Jest and The Broom of the System and the story collections Oblivion, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, and Girl with Curious Hair. His nonfiction includes the essay collections Consider the Lobster and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again and the full-length work Everything and More.

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