Lynne Rudder Baker

The Metaphysics of Everyday Life

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Lynne 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 reality. Although they are ultimately constituted by microphysical particles, everyday objects are neither identical to, nor reducible to, the aggregates of microphysical particles that constitute them. The result is genuine ontological diversity: people, bacteria, donkeys, mountains and microscopes are fundamentally different kinds of things - all… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-88049-7
EAN: 9780521880497
Produktnummer: 2917919
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Seitenangabe: 270 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.0 cm 572 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 572

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).