The book Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will, published in 2010 by Columbia University Press, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In this anthology, notable philosophers engage directly with that work and assess Walla…
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'Fate, Time, and Language: An Essay on Free Will', published in 2010, presented David Foster Wallace's challenge to Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In this anthology, notable philosophers engage directly with that work and assess Wallace's reply to Taylor as well as othe…
Freedom, fatalism, and foreknowledge
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We typically think we have free will. But how could we have free will, if for anything we do, it was already true in the distant past that we could do that thing? Or how could we have free will, if God already knows in advance all the details of our lives? Such issues raise the …
"In this book, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate in 'Gnos…