Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View

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. This book will be of interest to professional philosophers and graduate students, and will also appeal to psychologists and cognitive scientists interested in the philosophy of mind.

Author: Lynne Rudder Baker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 01/13/2000
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.17lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780521592635

Review Citation(s):
Choice 12/01/2000 pg. 719

About the Author
Baker, Lynne Rudder: - 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).