On Determinism and Freedom

Ted Honderich is Grote Professor Emeritus of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London and Visiting Professor at the University of Bath.

• Contents; Introduction; 1 What Effects Are; 1 Causes, Conditions, Causal Circumstances; 2 Causal Circumstances as Necessitating; 3 What Necessitation Comes To; 4 Objections; 5 Other Necessary Connections, Laws, Dispositions; 2 Determinism and Its Human Consequences; 1 Mind and Brain, Actions; 2 Compatibilism and Incompatibilism, and Moral Responsibility; 3 Real Consequences of Determinism; 3 The Will, Reasons, Determinism's Incoherence; 1. Doctrines Summarized; 2. Rational as Against Natural Powers; 3. Reasons; 4. Compatibilism, Connected Freedoms, Punishment; 4 Is the Mind Ahead of the Brain? Behind It?; 1. Some Experimental Findings About Experiences; 2. Statements of an Hypothesis; 3. Inconsistency, Delay-and-Antedating; 4. Mind and Brain, Free Will, A Conjecture, Contradiction; 5. The Later Research; 5 Mind the Guff; 1. Consciousness as Biological Subjectivity on Two Levels Etc.; 2. The Consciousness of Deciding and Acting; 3. Gaps Again, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism; 4. Free Will With Neural Indeterminism; 6 Determinism True, Compatibilism and Incompatibilism False, Another Problem; 1. Quantum Theory as Interpreted; 2. Origination and the Philosophy of Mind; 3. Consequence Argument, Hierarchy Argument; 4. Attitudinism; 7 After Compatibilism and Incompatibilism -- and Attitudinism?; 1. Experience, Quantum Theory, Determinism; 2. Compatibilism and Incompatibilism and Attitudinism One Last Time; 3. Attitudinism and Affirmation; 4. Trouble, and Two Ideas; Acknowledgements; Index