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9780231527071
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" Long before he published Infinite Jest , David Foster Wallace wrote a brilliant critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In 1962, Taylor used six commonly-accepted presuppositions to imply that humans have no control over the future. Not only did Wallace take issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but he also called out a semantic trick that lie at the heart of Taylor's argument. Wallace was a great skeptic of abstract thinking as a negation of something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of certain theoretical paradigms&,mdash,he cerebral aestheticism of modernism, the clever gimmickry of postmodernism&,mdash,hat abandoned the very old traditional human verities that have to do with spirituality and emotion and community. As Wallace rises up to meet the challenge of Taylor (not to mention a number of other philosophical heavyweights), we watch the perspective of a major novelist develop, along with a lifelong struggle to find solid ground for his soaring convictions. This volume reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace in his critique. James Ryerson, an editor at the New York Times Magazine , draws parallels in his introduction between Wallace's philosophy and fiction."
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Rezension(1): "〈DIV〉 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 . 〈/DIV〉" Rezension(2): " Publisher's Weekly : October 11, 2010 A progression of ordinary-seeming premises that would obliterate free will is challenged on its own grounds by the late, celebrated author of Infinite Jest. Written in the mid-1980s as one of Wallace', two undergraduate theses at Amherst College (his first novel, The Broom of the System, was the other), it addresses a ",ogical slippage", as James Ryerson puts it—in Richard Taylor', six famous presuppositions that contend that man has no control over his fate. The paper, a survey of Taylor', argument and its influence on late-20th-century philosophy, is reprinted in its entirety, and the language of modal logic can be heavy going at times—be prepared for pages of highly specialized discussion on logic that necessitate accompanying diagrams. Still, as an early glimpse at the preoccupations of one of the 20th century', most compelling and philosophical authors, it is invaluable, and Wallace', conclusion—",f Taylor and the fatalists want to force upon us a metaphysical conclusion, they must do metaphysics, not semantics", is simply elegant. " Rezension(3): "Library Journal: November 15, 2010 This is the late Wallace's previously unpublished senior undergraduate philosophy thesis (1985, Amherst Coll.). He writes on the classical philosophical problem of fatalism, which is essentially the problem of asserting individual free will. As an undergraduate Wallace learned the logic needed to refute a claim of fatalism and the need to propose new logical systems for making his argument against fatalism. This book includes New York Times Magazine editor James Ryerson's introductory essay to establish context,a republication of philosopher Richard Taylor's essay to which Wallace was specifically responding,and a number of previously published papers that feature objections to fatalism or refutations by fatalists, e.g., an essay by coeditor Cahn (philosophy, Columbia Univ.). VERDICT Wallace's senior thesis is accessible to all who have a basic understanding of logic. This book is for any reader who has enjoyed the works of Wallace and for philosophy students specializing in fatalism. --Jim Hahn, Univ. of Illinois Lib., UrbanaCopyright 2010 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. "
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