Research Catalog

Title

Common sense metaphysics : essays in honor of Lynne Rudder Baker / edited by Luis R. G. Oliveira and Kevin J. Corcoran.

Publication

• New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Baker, Lynne Rudder, 1944-2017
• Oliveira, Luis R. G.
• Corcoran, Kevin, 1964-

Description

x, 335 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"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"--

Series Statement

Routledge festschrifts in philosophy

Subjects

• Realism
• Perspective (Philosophy)
• Metaphysics
• Constitution (Philosophy)
• Baker, Lynne Rudder, 1944-2017

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 21-5540

ISBN

• 9780367333218
• 036733321X

LCCN

• 2020037421
• 40030418470

OCLC

1193558578

Title

Common sense metaphysics : essays in honor of Lynne Rudder Baker / edited by Luis R. G. Oliveira and Kevin J. Corcoran.

Publisher

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge festschrifts in philosophy

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Baker, Lynne Rudder, 1944-2017, honoree.

Oliveira, Luis R. G., editor.

Corcoran, Kevin, 1964- editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Common sense metaphysics New York, NY : Routledge, 2021 9780429319976 (DLC) 2020037422

Other Standard Identifier

40030418470

Research Call Number

JFE 21-5540