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This is George Dickie's attempt to improve his institutional theory of art that he first put forward in Art and the Aesthetic.
The theory is about what makes an object a work of art and he claims it gives both the necessary and the sufficient conditions for art. Put roughly and shorty, something is art because of the place it occupies in the artworld.
The idea of this theory is to be able to explain ready-mades and pieces of art like Duchamp's Fountain.

What promises to be a brisk and entertaining foray into the life of the best-known classical philosopher fizzles into a historical drone. While the author labors to keep the subject matter palatable and entertaining, and Robert Whitfield is more than equal to the task, the text lacks what it takes to feed a thirsty ear. This is particularly true on Cassette Two, when we lose all sense of storytelling and find ourselves in a dark wood of fact reciting. It's worth spending 90 minutes reading an actual book on Plato in this case, rather than depleting your Walkman batteries. D.J.B.

Sir Anthony Kenny tells the fascinating story of the development of philosophy in the modern world, from the early nineteenth century to the late twentieth century. Alongside (and intertwined with) extraordinary scientific advances, cultural changes, and political upheavals, the last two centuries have seen some of the most intriguing and original developments in philosophical thinking, which have transformed our understanding of ourselves and our world.

This volume gathers together a number of new studies of Descartes’ natural philosophy. We have not concerned ourselves with the textbook image of Descartes in philosophy or the history of ideas, as father of modern philosophy, or as the inventor of modern epistemology, mind/body dualism, or advocate of a universal method.

The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of the Social Sciences collects newly commissioned essays that examine fundamental issues in the social sciences.

The World's Great Philosophers provides an introduction to and overview of some of the most profound and influential thinkers in the history of philosophy.

Modern Philosophy finds it difficult to give a satisfactory picture of the place of minds in the world. In Mind and World, based on the 1991 John Locke Lectures, one of the most distinguished philosophers writing today offers his diagnosis of this difficulty and points to a cure. In doing so, he delivers the most complete and ambitious statement to date of his own views, a statement that no one concerned with the future of philosophy can afford to ignore.

Theories of Truth provides a clear, critical introduction to one of the most difficult areas of philosophy. It surveys all of the major philosophical theories of truth, presenting the crux of the issues involved at a level accessible to nonexperts yet in a manner sufficiently detailed and original to be of value to professional scholars.