Freedom and the Self: Essays on the Philosophy of David Foster Wallace
ISBN: 9780231539166
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
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Subjects: Wallace David Foster; Fate and fatalism; Taylor Richard 1919–2003; Semantics;

Contemporary philosophers assess the late author's ideas on fatalism, free will, and art.


Cahn Steven :

Steven M. Cahn (PhD, Philosophy, Columbia) is Professor of Philosophy at The City University of New York Graduate Center, where he served for nearly a decade as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs, then as Acting President. He is the author and editor of numerous books, including From Student to Scholar (Columbia, 2008), Fate, Time, and Language (Columbia, 2010), Polishing Your Prose (Columbia, 2013), Freedom and the Self (Columbia, 2015), Happiness and Goodness (Columbia, 2015), and Religion Within Reason (Columbia, 2017); his textbooks and anthologies on ethics, philosophy of religion, and introduction to philosophy, published by Oxford, have appeared in multiple editions.Steven M. Cahn is professor of philosophy at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written or edited some fifty books, including Fate, Logic, and Time ; God, Reason, and Religion ; Saints and Scamps: Ethics in Academia ; and From Student to Scholar: A Candid Guide to Becoming a Professor .

Maureen Eckert is associate professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She teaches courses in a variety of areas, including ancient Greek philosophy, logical paradoxes, and free will. With Steven M. Cahn, she edited Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will .

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