Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Determinism, and Humanity

Provides the most comprehensive survey of the work of the leading philosopher, Ted Honderich
Assembles a stellar list of experts and thinkers, including Noam Chomsky, Mary Warnock and Barry Smith
Addresses a range of absorbing and highly topical subjects, including free will, punishment, morality, and terrorism

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Gregg D. Caruso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, USA, and Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network. He is the author of Free Will and Consciousness and the editor of Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (co-edited with Owen Flanagan), Science and Religion: 5 Questions, and Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility.

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This fascinating collection assembles leading philosophers of mind, metaphysics and morals to examine the impact of the work of Ted Honderich, Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, UK. The insightful analyses are accompanied by replies from Ted Honderich himself, providing the most comprehensive critical treatment of his accomplishments to date.

The essays focus on three major areas of Honderich's work: his theory of actual consciousness; his extensive and ground-breaking work on determinism and freedom; and his views on right and wrong, including his Principle of Humanity and his writings on terrorism. This volume is essential reading for all scholars interested in the work of Ted Honderich, and in the debates surrounding the philosophy of mind, metaphysics, free will and moral responsibility, and social and political philosophy.

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Preface, Gregg D. Caruso.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Three Sides of Ted Honderich's Philosophy, Ted Honderich.- SECTION I: Consciousness.- Chapter 2: Mentality Beyond Consciousness, Noam Chomsky.- Chapter 3: Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Paul Snowdon.- Chapter 4: Actual Consciousness and the Tripartite Division, Barry Smith.- Chapter 5: On Honderich's Conception of the Physical, Barbara Gail Montero.- Chapter 6: Replies to Chomsky, Snowdon, Smith, and Montero, Ted Honderich.- SECTION II: Determinism and Freedom.- Chapter 7: Origination, Moral Responsibility, Punishment, and Life-Hopes: Ted Honderich on Determinism and Freedom, Gregg D. Caruso.- Chapter 8: Free Will, Science and Life-Hopes, Robert Kane.- Chapter 9: Honderich on Meaning in Life, Derk Pereboom.- Chapter 10: Free Will and Justification: Punishment and Terrorism, Saul Smilansky.- Chapter 11: Replies to Caruso, Kane, Pereboom, and Smilansky, Ted Honderich.- SECTION III: Right and Wrong.- Chapter 12: Ted Honderich on Terrorism, Paul Glibert.- Chapter 13: The Principle of Humanity, Baroness Mary Warnock.- Chapter 14: TBA, Akeel Bilgrami.- Chapter 15: TBA, Michael Neumann.- Chapter 16: Replies to Gilbert, Warnock, Bilgrami, and Neumann, Ted Honderich.- Bibliography.- Index.