Despite being eminently forgettable from the literary point of view, B. F. Skinner's novel, Walden Two, provides us with an excellent opportunity, not so much to show what is wrong with mainstream accounts of free will, as Robert Kane thinks, but rather to explore another key and importantly neglected condition for genuine agency; namely, that properly lived human lives are those that are and must continue to be vulnerable to unforseable reversals, as Aldous Huxley speculates in his Brave New World. In short, I argue, perhaps scandalously, that one of the central conditions for genuine agency is that our lives are and must continue to be, to a large extent, out of our personal control. The promise of too much personal control, not too littl...
David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had p...
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is many things: an account of a man’s solitary retreat from society, a ...
Although standard critical interpretation takes for granted that Wallace mostly managed to solve the...
Despite being eminently forgettable from the literary point of view, B. F. Skinner's novel, Walden T...
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990), who is the founder of behaviorism, a learning theory that reli...
AbstractBurrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990), who is the founder of behaviorism, a learning theory t...
First we had Walden Two. Skinner (1948) imagined everyday people joining a behaviorally-engineered c...
The epistemological differences between Skinner and Plato are widely recognized. However, in the pol...
This thesis examines the technological interference carried out by the government to manipulate the ...
This paper is about self-consciousness and how it figures in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. B...
Many philosophical problems are rooted in everyday thought, and experimental philosophy uses social ...
“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom”, writes J.G. Ballard in his novel Running W...
Abstract Thomas Pynchon is an author often accused with a cold and dystopic universe. In my work T...
As most of the fictional novels, 1984 and Animal Farms are also a kind of historic or social critici...
Book synopsis: Today the majority of philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to the "natu...
David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had p...
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is many things: an account of a man’s solitary retreat from society, a ...
Although standard critical interpretation takes for granted that Wallace mostly managed to solve the...
Despite being eminently forgettable from the literary point of view, B. F. Skinner's novel, Walden T...
Burrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990), who is the founder of behaviorism, a learning theory that reli...
AbstractBurrhus Frederic Skinner (1904-1990), who is the founder of behaviorism, a learning theory t...
First we had Walden Two. Skinner (1948) imagined everyday people joining a behaviorally-engineered c...
The epistemological differences between Skinner and Plato are widely recognized. However, in the pol...
This thesis examines the technological interference carried out by the government to manipulate the ...
This paper is about self-consciousness and how it figures in David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. B...
Many philosophical problems are rooted in everyday thought, and experimental philosophy uses social ...
“In a totally sane society, madness is the only freedom”, writes J.G. Ballard in his novel Running W...
Abstract Thomas Pynchon is an author often accused with a cold and dystopic universe. In my work T...
As most of the fictional novels, 1984 and Animal Farms are also a kind of historic or social critici...
Book synopsis: Today the majority of philosophers in the English-speaking world adhere to the "natu...
David Foster Wallace felt that literature was at a historical crossroad, and thatpostmodernism had p...
Henry David Thoreau’s Walden is many things: an account of a man’s solitary retreat from society, a ...
Although standard critical interpretation takes for granted that Wallace mostly managed to solve the...