A Canadian-British philosopher whose 2002 book examined the morality of terrorism after the September 11 attacks. The 2005 opening said he "has been involved in controversy since the publication of his book After the Terror in 2002 in which Honderich asks why the events of September 11th were wrong." Today the opening makes no mention of the book or the controversy at all, though the word survives 24 times in the body. A reader arriving now learns only his academic titles and not the controversial argument for which he became known.
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Ted Honderich is a Canadian -born British academic philosopher , of Mennonite origin, who moved to London in 1959 to work with Alfred Ayer . His brother Beland Honderich was long-time publisher and trustee of Torstar Corporation which controls the largest circulation daily newspaper in Toronto , the Toronto Star . Since 1972 he has been Reader in Philosophy at University College, London and was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic from 1988 until his retirement in 1998. He was previously lecturer there, and has also lectured at the University of Sussex , and well as holding visiting lectureships at Yale University and the City University of New York . He is the author of Punishment: The Supposed Justifications (1969) and Violence for Equality: Inquiries in Political Philosophy (1980), and has edited a huge number of philosophy books, including Essays on Freedom of Action (1973), Social Ends and Political Means (1976) and Philosophy Through Its Past (1984). Honderich has been involved in controversy since the publication of his book After the Terror in 2002 in which Honderich asks why the events of September 11th were wrong and what terrorism tells us about ourselves and our obligations, and defends a morality of humanity that requires us to think about our lives, and to act up against our democratic governments. Oxfam infamously refused to accept a donation of £ 5,000, accrued in royalties from sales of the book.1
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His work has been mainly about five things: determinism's truth and its consequences for our lives; the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain ; right and wrong in the contemporary world, in particular with respect to terrorism ; the supposed justifications of punishment by the state; and the political tradition of conservatism .
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His work has been mainly about five things: determinism 's truth and its consequences for our lives; the nature of consciousness and its relation to the brain; right and wrong in the contemporary world, in particular with respect to terrorism; the supposed justifications of punishment by the state; and the political tradition of conservatism.
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Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British professor of philosophy , who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London .
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Canadian-British philosopher (born 1933) Ted Honderich (born 30 January 1933) is a Canadian-born British professor of philosophy , who was Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic, University College London .
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canadian -born british academic philosopher
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canadian-born british philosopher
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