Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy

Danto, Arthur C.

ISBN 10: 0520208420 / ISBN 13: 9780520208421

Published by University of California Press, 1997

About this Item

No markings, annotations, or inscriptions. Internally fine. Text block top edge dust-spotted. Clean and tight cover, light edge wear only, slight lifting to the fore edges. There is no creasing at all to the spine. With a New Preface (first University of California Press edition). xxvii, 281pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Connections to the World: The Basic Concepts of Philosophy
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520208420
• ISBN 13: 9780520208421
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Arthur C. Danto is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University and art critic for The Nation. He is a past president of the American Philosophical Association and the author of more than fifteen books, including Encounters and Reflections (California paperback, 1996) and Playing with the Edge: The Photographic Achievement of Robert Mapplethorpe (California, 1995).