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Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy) by Lynne Rudder Baker is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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.

Who reads Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy)?

Author

Lynne Rudder Baker

Publisher

Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781139173124

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Science, Psychology

Rating

3.9 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14