Lynne Rudder Baker

Persons and Bodies

A Constitution View
Herausgeber: Dancy, Jonathan; Sosa, Ernest

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed account of the relation between human persons and their bodies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780521597197
• ISBN-10: 0521597196
• Artikelnr.: 21469054

Autorenporträt

Lynne Rudder Baker is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She is the author of Explaining Attitudes (Cambridge, 1995), Persons and Bodies (Cambridge, 2000), The Metaphysics of Everyday Life (Cambridge, 2007), and Saving Belief (1987).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Part I. The Metaphysical Background: 1. Persons in the material world
2. The very idea of constitution
3. The first-person perspective
Part II. The Constitution View Explained: 4. The constitution view of human persons
5. Personal identity over time
6. The importance of being a person
Part III. The Constitution View Defended: 7. The coherence of the idea of material constitution
8. The coherence of the constitution view
9. In favor of the constitution view.