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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.
Contents
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
