Philosophers of Our Times

by Honderich, Ted

• ISBN13: 9780198712503
• ISBN10: 0198712502
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-03-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Ted Honderich, University College London

Ted Honderich, Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, past chairman of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and visiting professor at Yale and the CUNY Graduate Centre, came to England from Canada as a graduate student. He has lived in London for most of his life, and lectured in much of Europe and the East. His publications include Actual Consciousness (OUP, 2014), The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (second edition; OUP, 2005), How Free Are You? (second edition; OUP, 2002), and The Philosophers (OUP, 1999).

Table of Contents

Introduction, Ted Honderich
Conceiving the Impossible and the Mind-Body Problem, Thomas Nagel
Perception and its Objects, P. F. Strawson
Perception: Where Mind Begins?, Tyler Burge
The Revenge of the Given: Mental Representation Without Conceptualization, Jerry Fodor
Attention and Mental Paint, Ned Block
Some Remarks on Intention in Action, John McDowell
On Having a Good, Christine M. Korsgaard
Reasons Fundamentalism, T. M. Scanlon
The Majesty of Reason, Simon Blackburn
What Is Natural? And should we care?, Mary Warnock
Free Will as a Problem in Neurobiology, John R. Searle
We Are Not Human Beings, Derek Parfit
Knowledge, Belief, and Faith, Anthony Kenny
Simple Truths, Hard Problems: Some thoughts on terror, justice, and self-defence, Noam Chomsky
Social Structures and their Threats to Moral Agency, Alasdair MacIntyre
Religious Tolerance--The Pacemaker for Cultural Rights, Jurgen Habermas
Philosophy as a Humanistic Discipline, Bernard Williams
Why Isn't There More Progress in Philosophy?, David J. Chalmers