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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      13 January 2000
      ISBN:
      9781139173124
      9780521592635
      9780521597197
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139173124
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.465kg, 246 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.376kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Philosophy: General Interest, Logic, Philosophy, Psychology, Psychology: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Philosophy
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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 relation between human persons and their bodies'? Baker argues that the complex mental property of first-person perspective enables one to conceive of one's body and mental states as one's own.

    Reviews

    "Baker (Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst) develops a sustained argument defending view of persons. Her argument links the body to the mind by means of the constitution view..." Choice

    "As usual, Ruddr-Baker provides an extremely clear and subtle defense of a provocative position that goes against much mainstream theorising." metapsychology@netscape.net Dec 2001

    "I found it a fascinating read, and so will anyone who is interested in the metaphysics of material objects. Those who take seriously the idea that there might really be such thing as constitution, moreover, may well be convinced that Baker has presented the best, most convincing version of 'constitutionalism.'" The Philosophical Review

    "...Persons and Bodies is a fine book, carefully argued throughout as well as elegantly and enjoyably written...the book should not be missed." Philosophical Christi

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