Provides the most comprehensive survey of the work of the leading philosopher, Ted Honderich
Assembles a stellar list of experts and thinkers, including Noam Chomsky, Mary Warnock and Barry Smith
Addresses a range of absorbing and highly topical subjects, including free will, punishment, morality, and terrorism

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Gregg D. Caruso is Associate Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Corning, USA, and Co-Director of the Justice Without Retribution Network. He is the author of Free Will and Consciousness and the editor of Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience (co-edited with Owen Flanagan), Science and Religion: 5 Questions , and Exploring the Illusion of Free Will and Moral Responsibility .

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Preface, Gregg D. Caruso.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Three Sides of Ted Honderich's Philosophy, Ted Honderich.- SECTION I: Consciousness.- Chapter 2: Mentality Beyond Consciousness, Noam Chomsky.- Chapter 3: Ted Honderich on Consciousness, Paul Snowdon.- Chapter 4: Actual Consciousness and the Tripartite Division, Barry Smith.- Chapter 5: On Honderich's Conception of the Physical, Barbara Gail Montero.- Chapter 6: Replies to Chomsky, Snowdon, Smith, and Montero, Ted Honderich.- SECTION II: Determinism and Freedom.- Chapter 7: Origination, Moral Responsibility, Punishment, and Life-Hopes: Ted Honderich on Determinism and Freedom, Gregg D. Caruso.- Chapter 8: Free Will, Science and Life-Hopes, Robert Kane.- Chapter 9: Honderich on Meaning in Life, Derk Pereboom.- Chapter 10: Free Will and Justification: Punishment and Terrorism, Saul Smilansky.- Chapter 11: Replies to Caruso, Kane, Pereboom, and Smilansky, Ted Honderich.- SECTION III: Right and Wrong.- Chapter 12: Ted Honderich on Terrorism, Paul Glibert.- Chapter 13: The Principle of Humanity, Baroness Mary Warnock.- Chapter 14: TBA, Akeel Bilgrami.- Chapter 15: TBA, Michael Neumann.- Chapter 16: Replies to Gilbert, Warnock, Bilgrami, and Neumann, Ted Honderich.- Bibliography.- Index.