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Author Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013.

Title Connections to the world : the basic concepts of philosophy / Arthur C. Danto ; with a new preface
Published Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1997

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Description xxvii, 281 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 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 -- 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 -- 20. The Analysis of Knowledge -- 21. Doubt, Dream, and Demon -- 22. Thinking and Certainty -- 23. Internalism 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 -- 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
Notes Originally published: New York : Harper & Row, c1989
Includes index
Subject Philosophy -- Introductions.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
LC no. 96037031
ISBN 0520208420 paperback alkaline paper