Time And Free Will An Essay On The

Author : David Foster Wallace
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231151578
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fate, Time, and Language written by David Foster Wallace and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 methods, but also noted a semantic trick at the heart of Taylor's argument. Fate, Time, and Language presents Wallace's critique of Taylor's work. Wallace's thesis reveals his great skepticism of abstract thinking made to function as a negation of something more genuine and real. He was especially suspicious of the cerebral aestheticism of modernism and the clever gimmickry of postmodernism, which abandoned "the very old traditional human verities that have to do with spirituality and emotion and community." As Wallace rises to meet the challenge to free will presented by Taylor, we witness the developing perspective of this major novelist and his struggle to establish logical ground for his convictions. This volume, edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert, reproduces Taylor's original article and other works on fatalism cited by Wallace. James Ryerson's introduction connects Wallace's early philosophical work to the themes and explorations of his later fiction, and Jay Garfield supplies a critical biographical epilogue.

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
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Download or read book Time and Free Will written by Henri Bergson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bergson argues for free will by showing that the arguments against it come from a confusion of different conceptions of time. As opposed to physicists' idea of measurable time, life is perceived in human experience as a continuous and immeasurable flow rather than as a succession of marked-off states of consciousness.

Author : Henri Bergson
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Total Pages : 284 pages
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Download or read book Time and Free Will written by Henri Bergson and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486417677
Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book Time and Free Will written by Henri Bergson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bergson argues for free will by showing that the arguments against it come from a confusion of different conceptions of time. As opposed to physicists' idea of measurable time, in human experience life is perceived as a continuous and unmeasurable flow rather than as a succession of marked-off states of consciousness-something that can be measured not quantitatively, but only qualitatively. His conclusion is that free will is an observable fact.

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : e-artnow
ISBN 13 : 8026896815
Total Pages : 137 pages
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Download or read book Time and Free Will (Annotated Edition) written by Henri Bergson and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time and Free Will essay deals with the problem of free will, which Bergson contends is merely a common confusion among philosophers caused by an illegitimate translation of the unextended into the extended, as a means of introducing his theory of duration, which would become highly influential among continental philosophers in the following century.

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752407964
Total Pages : 134 pages
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Download or read book Time and Free Will written by Henri Bergson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : Nabu Press
ISBN 13 : 9781295873562
Total Pages : 282 pages
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Download or read book Time and Free Will written by Henri Bergson and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Time And Free Will: An Essay On The Immediate Data Of Consciousness; Library Of Philosophy Henri Bergson Frank Lubecki Pogson G. Allen, Limited, 1913 Consciousness; Free will and determinism; Space and time

Author : Peter Van Inwagen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198249241
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on Free Will written by Peter Van Inwagen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1983 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the incompatibility of the concepts of free will and determinism and argues that moral responsibility needs the doctrine of free will

Author : Henri Bergson
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486119246
Total Pages : 242 pages
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Download or read book The Creative Mind written by Henri Bergson and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Laureate discusses not only how and why he became a philosopher but also his conception of philosophy as a field distinct from science and literature.

Author : Suzanne Guerlac
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501716972
Total Pages : 367 pages
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Download or read book Thinking in Time written by Suzanne Guerlac and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Under the aegis of time Suzanne Guerlac displaces matter, intuition, memory, and vitalism of the early twentieth century into the wake of poststructuralism and the dilemmas of nature and culture here and now. This book is a landmark for anyone working in the currents of philosophy, science, and literature. The force and vision of the work will enthuse and inspire every one of its readers." ―Tom Conley, Harvard University "In recent years, we have grown accustomed to philosophical language that is intensely self-conscious and rhetorically thick, often tragic in tone. It is enlivening to read Bergson, who exerts so little rhetorical pressure while exacting such a substantial effort of thought.... Bergson's texts teach the reader to let go of entrenched intellectual habits and to begin to think differently—to think in time.... Too much and too little have been said about Bergson. Too much, because of the various appropriations of his thought. Too little, because the work itself has not been carefully studied in recent decades."—from Thinking in Time Henri Bergson (1859–1941), whose philosophical works emphasized motion, time, and change, won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1927. His work remains influential, particularly in the realms of philosophy, cultural studies, and new media studies. In Thinking in Time, Suzanne Guerlac provides readers with the conceptual and contextual tools necessary for informed appreciation of Bergson's work. Guerlac's straightforward philosophical expositions of two Bergson texts, Time and Free Will (1888) and Matter and Memory (1896), focus on the notions of duration and memory—concepts that are central to the philosopher's work. Thinking in Time makes plain that it is well worth learning how to read Bergson effectively: his era and our own share important concerns. Bergson's insistence on the opposition between the automatic and the voluntary and his engagement with the notions of "the living," affect, and embodiment are especially germane to discussions of electronic culture.