Ted Honderich

Ted Honderich ( born 1933 as Edgar Dawn Ross Honderich in Baden, Canada ) is a Canadian- British philosopher. He is Emeritus Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London and author of numerous books dealing among other things with the issues of determinism, the problem of free will, and the mind-brain problem.

Biography

Honderich studied philosophy and English literature at the University of Toronto (BA hons. , 1959 ) and from 1959 at University College London. He has since lived in England and adopted British citizenship. In 1962 he was a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Sussex. In 1964 he returned ( Ph.D. 1968) as a lecturer to the University College London, where he remained until his retirement in 1998. In 1972 he was a lecturer in 1983 and was professor from 1988 to 1998 Grote professor. In addition, (s) he has held visiting professorships at Yale University (1970), the City University of New York ( 1971), the University of Lethbridge and since 2003 at the University of Bath. He was from 1995 to 2005 Deputy Chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, which he chaired since 2005. Honderich is married in fourth marriage to Ingrid Coggin Honderich and has two children from his second marriage.

Controversy surrounding the book " After the Terror "

Suhrkamp Verlag took in 2003 Honderich's book " After the Terror. A treatise " because of the attitude of the author about Palestinian terrorism from the program. Micha Brumlik, director of the Frankfurt Fritz Bauer Institute, had Honderich treatise previously criticized for its allegedly contained " anti-Semitic anti-Zionism ". Honderich writes, among other things, that " the Palestinians have exercised with its terrorism against the Israelis a moral right ." In an open letter Norman Paech Honderich defended and criticized Brumlik the fact that he played the tenor of the book misinterpreted and shortened. Object are the phenomena of terrorism and not the Jewish people as such. 2004, he published in a new translation in Melzer Verlag.

Works

Monographs

• The misery of conservatism: a critique. transl. by Anne Vonderstein. Red Book, Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88022-807-8.
• How free are we? The determinism problem. transl. by Joachim Schulte. Reclam, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-009356-2.
• After the terror. ISBN 0-7486-1667-5. After the Terror: a treatise. transl. Eva Gilmer. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12437-4.
• After the Terror: a treatise. transl. by Thomas Fehige and Beatrice Kobow. Melzer, Neu-Isenburg, 2004, ISBN 3-937389 -30- X. (2010, ISBN 978-3-942472-00-5 )

Editorship

• The Oxford companion to philosophy. Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-866132-0.