Persons and bodies: a constitution view

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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. According to the solution Baker offers, a human person is constituted by a human body, but a human person is not identical to the body that constitutes him or her." "This book will be of interest to profession…

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Full title :Persons and bodies : a constitution view / Lynne Rudder Baker.

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Publication Date:2000.

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Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, U.K
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

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Description:xii, 233 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0521592631, 9780521592635, 0521597196, 9780521597197
oclc:ocm41176654
LC Classification:B105.B64
Dewey Decimal:128/.6

Persons in the material world -- The very idea of Constitution -- The first-person perspective -- The Constitution view of Human persons -- Personal identity over time -- The importance of being a person -- The coherence of the idea of material constitution -- The coherence of the constitution view of human persons -- In favor of the constitution view.