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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... Philosophy , more than a brain in a grey three piece suit . We have a man unafraid to let a frisky masculine ego out for a walk in the park . Why pretend it doesn't exist ? ... It's all there in Philosopher : A Kind of Life . ' The ...
... Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London . A. J. Ayer , Professor Sir Alfred , Freddie , known to ... Philosophy . Six floors of Lecturers , Senior Lecturers and Readers , working their way down from the attic or up from ...
... philosophical commitments and tendencies , my daily round , and my inner life ? They say philosophy doesn't come from nowhere , summoned into being by pure reason and reading good books . Also , why did those non - philosophical things ...
... philosophy , good sense , and an empirical kind of literature and art . The mind , then , whatever it is , must be natural or physical and open to such study . The second and more particular thing I share is our new realization of the ...
... philosophy . Philosophy can be time out , time away from the rest of life that is happening , and seemingly uncon- nected with it . This morning was that way . With a bit of luck , I will satisfy the anonymous cavillers who advise the ...
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 |