01756nam a22002297a 4500 20220125094543.0 220125b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0415236975 AL eng 23 192 HONP Ted Honderich 14645 Philosopher a Kind of Life London Routledge 2001 x,441 p. HB 24x16 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? Philosophers 14640 England 14641 Canada 14642 HONDERICH (Ted) 14643 ddc GF 221330 221330 0 0 ddc 0 0 OTH AL AL 2013-03-24 0 192 HONP GF02185 2022-01-25 00:00:00 2022-01-25 GF