Fate, time, and language an essay on free will
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- ISBN: 0231151578 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780231151573 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 023115156X (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9780231151566 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 0231527071 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780231527071 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (viii, 252 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2011.
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General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 Multi-User. CatMonthString:jan.13 |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The background. Introduction / Steven M. Cahn -- Fatalism / Richard Taylor -- Professor Taylor on fatalism / John Turk Saunders -- Fatalism and ability / Richard Taylor -- Fatalism and ability II / Peter Makepeace -- Fatalism and linguistic reform / John Turk Saunders -- Fatalism and Professor Taylor / Bruce Aune -- Taylor's fatal fallacy / Raziel Abelson -- A note on fatalism / Richard Taylor -- Tautology and fatalism / Richard Sharvy -- Fatalistic arguments / Steven Cahn -- Comment / Richard Taylor -- Fatalism and ordinary language / John Turk Saunders -- Fallacies in Taylor's "fatalism" / Charles D. Brown -- The essay. Renewing the fatalist conversation / Maureen Eckert -- Richard Taylor's "fatalism" and the semantics of physical modality / David Foster Wallace -- Epilogue. David Foster Wallace as student: a memoir / Jay Garfield. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Fate and fatalism PHILOSOPHY / Free Will & Determinism Semantics Taylor, Richard -- 1919-2003 |
Genre: | Electronic books. |