Ted Honderich
Ted Honderich (* 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 the author of numerous books on topics such as determinism , the problem of free will , and the mind-brain problem .
biography
Ted Honderich is the younger brother of the Canadian newspaper publisher Beland Honderich . He studied philosophy and English literature at the University of Toronto ( BA hons. 1959) and from 1959 at University College London. He has lived in England ever since and took British citizenship. In 1962 he became a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Sussex . In 1964 he returned to University College London as a lecturer ( Ph.D. 1968), where he remained until his retirement in 1998. He became a lecturer in 1972, professor in 1983 and was Grote Professor from 1988 to 1998. He is also visiting professor at Yale University (1970), City University of New York (1971), University of Lethbridge and, since 2003, at the University of Bath . From 1995 to 2005 he was Vice Chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy , of which he has been Chairman since 2005. Honderich is married to Ingrid Coggin Honderich for the fourth time and has two children from his second marriage.
Controversy over the book After Terror
In 2003, Suhrkamp-Verlag took out Honderich's book After Terror. A treatise from the program on the author's stance on Palestinian terrorism. Micha Brumlik , head of the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt, had previously criticized Honderich's treatise for the alleged " anti-Semitic anti - Zionism " contained therein . Honderich writes u. a. that “the Palestinians exercised a moral right with their terrorism against the Israelis”. In an open letter, Norman Paech defended Honderich and criticized Brumlik for having misinterpreted and abbreviated the tenor of the book. The subject is the phenomena of terrorism and not the Jewish people as such. In 2004 the book was published in a new translation by Melzer Verlag .
Works
Monographs
- The misery of conservatism: a criticism. trans. by Anne Vonderstein. Rotbuch , Hamburg 1994, ISBN 3-88022-807-8 .
- How free are we The determinism problem. trans. by Joachim Schulte. Reclam , Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-15-009356-2 .
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After the terror. ISBN 0-7486-1667-5 .
- After the terror: a treatise. trans. by Eva Gilmer. Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12437-4 .
- After the terror: a treatise. trans. by Thomas Fehige and Beatrice Kobow. Melzer , Neu-Isenburg 2004, ISBN 3-937389-30-X . (2010, ISBN 978-3-942472-00-5 )
- Terrorism for Humanity. Kai Homilius Verlag , 2005, ISBN 3-89706-650-5 .
- Humanity and Terrorism: Palestine, 9/11, Iraq, 7/7. Melzer Verlag, Neu-Isenburg 2010, ISBN 978-3-9813189-6-8 .
Editing
- The Oxford companion to philosophy. Oxford University Press Oxford, New York 1995, ISBN 0-19-866132-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ted Honderich in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website at University College London
- Scandal over one of his books
- Richard Wolin : Are Suicide Bombings Morally Defensible? The Chronicle of Higher Education , October 24, 2003
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ted Honderich: Curriculum Vitae. October 31, 2007, accessed October 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Christian Geyer : A reasoning that is misleading. FAZ , August 7, 2003, accessed on October 21, 2011 .
- ↑ Norman Paech answers Micha Brumlik in the affair of Ted Honderich's book "After Terror" (accessed on October 21, 2010)
- ^ Controversial Honderich book is published by Melzer Verlag. Der Spiegel , October 31, 2003, accessed October 11, 2011 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Honderich, Ted |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian-British philosopher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Baden (Ontario) |