1st Edition

Philosopher A Kind Of Life

By Prof Ted Honderich, Ted Honderich Copyright 2001
468 Pages
by Routledge

468 Pages
by Routledge

468 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
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

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Prof Ted Honderich, Ted Honderich