Danto, Arthur C., 1924-2013
Connections to the world : the basic concepts of philosophy / Arthur C. Danto - First edition - New York : Harper & Row, c1989 - xvii, 281 p. : 22 cm
Includes index
CONTENTS
Pt. 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
Pt. II. 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 though
19. Geometry and reality
Pt. III. Knowledge
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
Pt. 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
006015960X 9780060159603
Philosophy--Introductions
Philosophy, Modern--20th century
BD21 / .D36 1989
Connections to the world : the basic concepts of philosophy / Arthur C. Danto - First edition - New York : Harper & Row, c1989 - xvii, 281 p. : 22 cm
Includes index
CONTENTS
Pt. 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
Pt. II. 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 though
19. Geometry and reality
Pt. III. Knowledge
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
Pt. 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
006015960X 9780060159603
Philosophy--Introductions
Philosophy, Modern--20th century
BD21 / .D36 1989