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

by David Foster Wallace

Book Overview

In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument.

Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's brilliant critique of Taylor's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231151578
• ISBN13: 9780231151573
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher