Lynne Rudder Baker

Persons and Bodies

A Constitution View

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What 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 argument is based on the 'Constitution View' of persons and bodies, which aims to show what distinguishes persons from all other beings and to show how we can be fully material beings without being identical to our bodies. The Constitution View yields answers to the questions 'What am I most fundamentally?', 'What is a person?', and 'What is the relat… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Dancy, Jonathan (Hrsg.) / Sosa, Ernest (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-521-59719-7
EAN: 9780521597197
Produktnummer: 9401435
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.4 cm 387 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 387

Über den Autor

Lynne Rudder Baker is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Explaining Attitudes (Cambridge UP, 1995), Persons and Bodies (Cambridge UP, 2000), The Metaphysics of Everyday Life (Cambridge UP, 2007), and Saving Belief (Princeton UP, 1987).