Introduction; Two Families of Attitudes, and Dismay and Intransigence; Compatibilism and Incompatibilism; Affirmation; Punishment, Society, Politics.
`His discussion of the consequences of determinism ... [is] a quite
outstanding contribution that deserves the widest readership.`
Times Higher Education Supplement
`There has been nothing in the recent past to compare in audacity,
scope and engagement with Ted Honderich's magnum opus ... The book
works simultaneously at different levels: as an original
contribution to timeless debates; as a comprehensive scholarly text
book of contemporary work in progress; as a synoptic world view on
a classic (but now unfashionable) scale; as an extended exercise in
the difficult process of reflexive meta-philosophic commentary;
and, perhaps most significantly, as the record of the personal
odyssey of someone for whom philosophy has been a matter of life
and death, with a tough-minded/tender-hearted message for fellow
mortals.'
Journal of Applied Science
`This big and important book resolutely and meticulously follows
where the best in western science and philosophy lead.' Journal of
Applied Science
`Ted Honderich has written the most important book on the subject
of determinism to appear in recent decades.' Roy Weatherford
`Professor Honderich provides a treatise that is learned, logical
and humane and may convince us that Determinism is both true and
tolerable. In the process he provides a theory of the nature of
minds and brains that helps us to solve many problems.' Professor
J. Z. Young, Brain
'truly encyclopedic contribution to the controversy surrounding
determinism ... his book is indispensable to anyone who is eager to
become clear about the present power of determinism.'
Ingmar Persson, Lund University, Theoria
'One can agree with much of what Honderich is saying here ... and
ethicists and other philosophers will find a great deal that is
interesting in his discussion of Spinoza, Hegel, and even Shelley
... I have no hesitancy in recommending A Theory of Determinism to
anyone interested in the wide range of topics it considers.'
Michael Slote, University of Maryland, The Philosophical Review,
Vol. C, No. 4 (October 1991)
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