Stephen Law

Ted Honderich's highly provocative contribution to my collection Israel, Palestine and Terror can be found here . Honderich defends the Palestinians' right to use terrorist methods. My response is here .

Ted Honderich has developed a theory of consciousness which he calls r adical externalism . Colin McGinn reviewed Honderich's book setting out the theory in Philosophical Review . The review is pretty damning. Opening sentences: This book runs the full gamut from the mediocre to the ludicrous to the merely bad. It is painful to read, poorly thought out, and uninformed. It is also radically inconsistent. Honderich has replied, and McGinn has replied to the reply. McGinn says: I was well aware that the final product would, however, rank as among the most scathing reviews of a philosophy book ever written; reasonably so, in my opinion. You can find all these pieces on Ted Honderich's website here . I myself contributed to a volume of Journal of Consciousness Studies dedicated to the theory. My piece is here . I won't comment on this spat other than to say that the position McGinn attributes to Honderich - that real physical objects appear within worlds of perceptual conscious...