Common Sense Metaphysics

Essays in Honor of Lynne Rudder Baker
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-33321-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 655 g

Reihe: Routledge Festschrifts in Philosophy

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oliveira, Luis R. G.

Oliveira, Luis

Corcoran, Kevin J.

Corcoran, Kevin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Metaphysik, Ontologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Luis R.G. Oliveira is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. He has published numerous articles in refereed journals, on topics in epistemology, ethics, and religion. He is also the director of the LATAM Bridges in the Epistemology of Religion, an international project focused on connecting Latin American philosophers to the Anglophone philosophical world.

Kevin J. Corcoran is professor of philosophy at Calvin University. He is the author of Rethinking Human Nature (2006), the co-author of Church in the Present Tense (2011), and the editor of Soul, Body and Survival (2001). He has also published numerous articles in refereed journals, on topics in metaphysics, mind, and religion.