Philosopher A Kind Of LifeThe story of Ted Honderich, philosopher, a story of a perilous philosophical life, marked by critical examination, and a compelling personal life full of human drama. This is the story of Ted Honderich's perilous progress from boyhood in Canada to the Grote Professorship of Mind and Logic at University College London, A. J. Ayer's chair. It is compelling, candid and revealing about the beginning and the goal, and everything in between: early work as a journalist on The Toronto Star, travels with Elvis Presley, arrival in Britain, loves and friendships, academic rivalries and battles, marriages and affairs, self-interest and empathy. It sets out resolutely to explain how and why it all happened. It is as much a narrative of Ted Honderich's philosophy. He makes hard problems real. Philosophy from consciousness and determinism to political violence and democracy comes into sharp focus. Along the way, questions keep coming up. Does the free marriage owe anything to the analytic philosophy? What are the costs of truth? Are the politics of England slowly making it an ever-better place? Is an action's rightness independent of the mixture of motives out of which it came? |
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Prof Ted Honderich, Ted Honderich. PHILOSOPHER A kind of life Ted Honderich OUTLEDS ROUTLEDGE Taylor & Francis Group London and New York First published 2001 by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane ,
... London EC4P 4EE Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada by Routledge 29 West 35th Street , New York , NY 10001 First published in paperback 2002 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group © 2001 , 2002 Ted Honderich ...
... London . A. J. Ayer , Professor Sir Alfred , Freddie , known to me in all those roles , all attacked with practised panache . In the first , he wrote the book Language , Truth and Logic . It inspired my retorts to teachers of my late ...
... London in which philosophy flourishes . The seminar is conducted by me and another professor or two , our dignity not wholly concealed by our bonhomie . They come from King's College down in the Strand , founded as a reproach to the ...
... London , the meetings to settle the classes of B.A. degrees to be awarded to undergraduates . There was one the other day . I argue that our massed judgement is not so acute that it is clear that this borderline candidate or that can ...
Contents
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City school Saturdays girls | 49 |
From university distracted First Love | 62 |
Awake in England | 90 |
Bracing life assigned to punishment married again | 112 |
A department joined moral and political utterances | 131 |
Nadir determinism again America | 150 |
Mind and brain etc anathema | 244 |
Professor psychoneural intimacy disarrays | 261 |
Mental and other events Johnny determinism done | 277 |
Lifehopes the Grote an idead girl | 301 |
Harmless drudge functionalism socialist landlord | 327 |
Ingrid court again | 353 |
Consciousness as existence farewells | 368 |
Coda | 386 |
Academic battles political violence an ending | 176 |
Effects a proud Scot justice 4 Keats Grove | 199 |
The higher social life Chancery Court much else | 221 |
Index | 427 |