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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... further revision , and also the e - mail , often from my daughter in Princeton . My son , not having an ocean between us , preserves his independence more sternly . The steamer trunk has past in it . A thousand dated notes , many of ...
... further back than any first thought or feeling about the action , let alone the choosing or willing of it . Indeed the sequence goes back to events that are not thoughts or feelings at all . Each effect is what it sounds like ...
... Further , and very importantly , the principle is to be so understood as enjoining us to work at reducing the incentive - demands of contributors to the goal . I have not been so alarmed as the amiable Lord Quinton , reviewer of a book ...
... further fact of the hand pump in the kitchen , which drew water from a well . This did not compare with the gleaming taps in the kitchen of our neighbours the Kuhns , financed by the making of electric fences . There was also the ...
... further , to reflect on the problem of fatalism that whatever is going to happen tomorrow is of course true now , and therefore is settled already . He was also upset to realize , without the help of Hume , that he was aware only of his ...
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 |