Common Sense Metaphysics - Essays in Honor of Lynne Rudder Baker

This book celebrates the career of Lynne Rudder Baker by presenting 16 essays from admiring students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends. The essays engage with all aspects of her influential work: practical realism about the mind; the constitution view of human persons; the first-person perspective; and God, Christianity and naturalism.

List of contents

Introduction 1
KEVI N J. CORCORAN AND LUIS R.G. OLIVEIRA
PART I
On Practical Realism about the Mind 11
1 What Is a Concept? 13
CHRISTOPHER HILL
2 Practical Realism about the Self 39
CAROLYN DICEY JENNINGS
3 Propositional Attitudes as Self-Ascriptions 54
ANGELA MENDELOVICI
4 Saving Physicalism 75
JANET LEVIN
PART II
On the Constitution View 93
5 Constitution, Non-reductivism, and Emergence 95
DERK PEREBOOM
6 The Threat of Thinking Things into Existence 114
KATHRIN KOSLICKI
7 Unkind Persons: A Critique of Baker’s Constitution View 137
KEVIN CORCORAN AND PAUL MANATA
8 Constitution and Personal Identity 158
MARYA SCHECHTMAN
PART III
On the First-Person Perspective 175
9 On Baker on the First Person 177
JOSEPH LEVINE
10 The Missing Self 194
JOHN PERRY
11 Naturalism and Non-qualitative Properties 209
SAM COWLING
12 Persons First Metaphysics 239
EINAR DUENGER BOHN
PART IV
On God, Christianity, and Naturalism 253
13 Speaking about Things Independently of Whether
They Exist 255
PETER VAN INWAGEN
14 Constitution, Persons, and the Resurrection of the Dead 271
THOMAS D. SENOR
15 Putnam and Baker on Naturalism 292
MARIO DE CARO
16 Naturalism and “Robust” Subjectivity: A Critique of Baker 306
LOUISE ANTONY
Notes on Contributors 331
Index 333

Summary

This book celebrates the career of Lynne Rudder Baker by presenting 16 essays from admiring students, colleagues, interlocutors, and friends. The essays engage with all aspects of her influential work: practical realism about the mind; the constitution view of human persons; the first-person perspective; and God, Christianity and naturalism.

Product details

• Authors: Luis Corcoran Oliveira
• Assisted by: Kevin Corcoran (Editor), Luis Oliveira (Editor), Oliveira Luis (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2023
• EAN: 9780367685669
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68566-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Routledge Festschrifts in Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, PHILOSOPHY / Religious, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / Metaphysics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Philosophy of Mind, RELIGION / Philosophy, Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology, Philosophy: metaphysics and ontology, Philosophy of religion, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge