Connections to the world : the basic concepts of philosophy : with a new preface

Author(s)

• Danto, Arthur Coleman

Bibliographic Information

Connections to the world : the basic concepts of philosophy : with a new preface

Arthur C. Danto

University of California Press, 1997, c1989

• : pbk. : alk. paper

Note

Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1989

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Arthur C. Danto's lucid introduction to the central topics of Western philosophical thought remains an unparalleled guide to problems in metaphysics and epistemology that have engaged philosophers for several millennia. Examining the work of Plato, Berkeley, Descartes, Hume, and Wittgenstein, Danto explores debates about empiricism, the mind/body problem, the nature of matter, and the status of language, consciousness, and scientific explanation. In a new preface to this edition he considers the current relationship between philosophy and the humanities.

Table of Contents

Preface (1997) Preface (1989) PART I The Singularity of Philosophical Thought 1 Philosophy and Its History 2 The Character of Philosophical Problems 3 Two Sorts of Illusions 4 Philosophical Kinds 5 Philosophy as Pathology 6 Wittgenstein and Plato 7 Inside and Outside the World 8 The Intelligibility of the World 9 The Structures of Philosophical Thought PART I I Understanding 10 Vehicles of Understanding 11 Verification 12 Feeling and Meaning 13 Metaethical Controversy 14 Two Views of Language 15 The Empiricist Theory of Understanding 16 Definition and Dialectic 17 Analytic, Synthetic, A priori, A posteriori 18 Totalistic Thought 19 Geometry and Reality PART III Knowledge 20 The Analysis of Knowledge 21 Doubt, Dream, and Demon 22 Thinking and Certainty 23 Intemalism and Externalism 24 The Ontological Argument 25 The Notion of Existence 26 Representationalism and Idealism 27 Idealism, Realism, and Phenomenalism 28 Matter, the World, and Philosophies of Knowledge 29 Coherence and Reality 30 Reality and Rationality PART IV The World 31 Substance 32 The Mind-Body Problem 33 Persons 34 Behaviorism and Functionalism 35 Neurophilosophy 36 Intentionality and Representational Materialism 37 Representational Beings 38 Causal Analysis 39 Mental Causation 40 The Realm of Spirit Index

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Details

• NCID: BA31719632
• ISBN:
  • 0520208420
• LCCN: 96037031
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Berkeley, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 281 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BD21
  • DC21 : 100
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Philosophy -- Introductions
  • LCSH : Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century