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Why Constitution Is Not Identity
- L. Baker
- Philosophy
- 1 December 1997
L'A. developpe un argument essentialiste contre la these selon laquelle la constitution des choses materielles etablit une identite. Reprenant l'argument de la statue afin de montrer que le discobole… Expand
The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism
- L. Baker
- Philosophy
- 24 September 2009
Introduction 1. Beginning with the middle Part I. Everyday Things: 2. The reality of ordinary things 3. Artifacts 4. Human persons Part II. The Everyday World: 5. Commonsense causation 6.… Expand
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The ontology of artifacts
- L. Baker
- Philosophy
- 1 June 2004
Beginning with Aristotle, philosophers have taken artifacts to be ontologically deficient. This paper proposes a theory of artifacts, according to which artifacts are ontologically on a par with… Expand
Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective
- L. Baker
- Philosophy
- 16 May 2013
Lynne Rudder Baker, "Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective": The first-person perspective poses a challenge to naturalism. Thomas Metzinger has proposed an intriguing account of the… Expand
The first-person perspective : A test for naturalism
- L. Baker
- Philosophy
- 1998
Analyse conceptuelle ou prescientifique de la perspective de la premiere personne qui sous-tend la conscience de soi et constitue la propedeutique a toute science. Denoncant l'oubli de la perspective… Expand
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UNITY WITHOUT IDENTITY : A NEW LOOK AT MATERIAL CONSTITUTION
- L. Baker
- Philosophy, Sociology
- 1999
It is time to rethink age-old questions about material constitution. What is the relation between, say, a lump of clay and a statue that it makes up, or between a red and white piece of metal and a… Expand
Why Christians Should Not Be Libertarians: An Augustinian Challenge
- L. Baker
- Philosophy
- 1 November 2003
When does a person begin?
- L. Baker
- Philosophy, Medicine
- Social philosophy & policy
- 1 July 2005
According to the Constitution View of persons, a human person is wholly constituted by (but not identical to) a human organism. This view does justice both to our similarities to other animals and to… Expand