Common sense metaphysics essays in honor of Lynne Rudder Baker / edited by Luis R.G. Oliveira and Kevin J. Corcoran.
| Other author | Baker, Lynne Rudder, 1944-2017. |
| Other author | Oliveira, Luis R. G. |
| Other author | Corcoran, Kevin, 1964- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York, NY : Routledge, 2021. |
| Description | pages cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Taylor & Francis eBooks |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction / Kevin Corcoran and Luis Oliveira -- What is a concept? / Christopher Hill -- Practical realism about the self / Carolyn Dicey Jennings -- Propositional attitudes as self ascriptions / Angela Mendelovici -- Saving physicalism / Janet Levin -- Constitution, non-reductionism, and emergence / Derk Pereboom -- The threat of thinking things into existence / Kathrin Koslicki -- Unkind persons : a critique of Baker's constitution view / Kevin Corcoran and Paul Manata -- Constitution and personal identity / Marya Schetchman -- On Baker on the first person / Joseph Levine -- The missing self / John Perry -- Naturalism and non-qualitative properties / Sam Cowling -- A persons first metaphysics / Einar Bohn -- Speaking about things independently of whether they exist / Peter van Inwagen -- Constitution, persons, and the resurrection of the dead / Thomas D. Senor -- Putnam and Baker on naturalism / Mario De Caro -- Naturalism and "robust" subjectivity : a critique of Baker / Louise Antony. |
| Abstract | "This book celebrates the research career of Lynne Rudder Baker by presenting sixteen new and critical essays from admiring students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends. Baker was a trenchant critic of physicalist conceptions of the universe. She was a staunch defender of a kind of practical realism, what she sometimes called a metaphysics of everyday life. It was this general "common sense" philosophical outlook that underwrote her famous constitution view of reality. Whereas most of her contemporaries were in general given to metaphysical reductionism and eliminativism, Baker was unapologetic and philosophically deft in her defense of ontological pluralism. The essays in this book engage with all aspects of her unique and influential work: practical realism about the mind; the constitution view of human persons; the first-person perspective; and God, Christianity and naturalism. Common Sense Metaphysics will be of interest to scholars of Baker's work, as well as scholars and advanced students engaged in research on various topics in metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and philosophy of religion"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2020037421 |
| ISBN | 9780367333218 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |