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Fate, Time and Language
Review by Anthony Gottlieb
Published: December 3 2010 22:09 | Last updated: December 3 2010 22:09
Fate, Time and Language: An Essay on Free Will, by David Foster Wallace, Columbia University Press, RRP$19.95, 252 pages
Lorelei always managed to be an innocent bystander as circumstances miraculously fell into place around her. For philosophers, however, fatalism is the idea that logic dictates that events unfold of their own accord, so that there is no point in trying to do anything about them. Futilism might be a better name for it.
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