Naturalism and the First-person Perspective (Häftad)
avLynne Rudder Baker
ISBN: 9780199914746 - UTGIVEN: 201308Science and its philosophical companion, Naturalism, represent reality in wholly nonpersonal terms. How, if at all, can a nonpersonal scheme accommodate the first-person perspective that we all enjoy? In this volume, Lynne Rudder Baker explores that question by considering both reductive and elimi[...]
The Metaphysics of Everyday Life (Häftad)
avLynne Rudder Baker
ISBN: 9780521120296 - UTGIVEN: 2009-09Lynne Rudder Baker presents and defends a unique account of the material world: the Constitution View. In contrast to leading metaphysical views that take everyday things to be either non-existent or reducible to micro-objects, the Constitution View construes familiar things as irreducible parts of [...]
Persons and Bodies (Häftad)
avLynne Rudder Baker
ISBN: 9780521597197 - UTGIVEN: 2000-01What is a human person, and what is the relation between a person and his or her body? In her third book on the philosophy of mind, Lynne Rudder Baker investigates what she terms the person/body problem and offers a detailed account of the relation between human persons and their bodies. Baker?s arg[...]
