Ted Honderich, Ted Honderich

Philosopher A Kind Of Life (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134560738
• Artikelnr.: 41221082

Autorenporträt

Prof Ted Honderich, Ted Honderich

Inhaltsangabe

1: This Green Summer; 2: Village; 3: City
School
Saturdays
Girls; 4: From University Distracted
First Love; 5: Awake in England; 6: Bracing Life
Assigned to Punishment
Married Again; 7: A Department Joined
Moral and Political Utterances; 8: Nadir
Determinism Again
America; 9: Academic Battles
Political Violence
an Ending; 10: Effects
a Proud Scot
Justice
4 Keats Grove; 11: The Higher Social Life
Chancery Court
much Else; 12: Mind and Brain etc.
Anathema; 13: Professor
Psychoneural Intimacy
Disarrays; 14: Mental and other Events
Johnny
Determinism done; 15: Life-Hopes
the Grote
an Idea'd Girl; 16: Harmless Drudge
Functionalism
Socialist Landlord; 17: Ingrid
Court Again; 18: Consciousness as Existence
Farewells; 19: Coda