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Science and its philosophical companion, Naturalism, represent reality in wholly nonpersonal terms. How, if at all, can a nonpersonal scheme accommodate the firstperson perspective that we all enjoy? In this volume, Lynne Rudder Baker explores that question by considering both reductive and eliminative approaches to the firstperson perspective. After finding both approaches wanting, she mounts an original constructive argument to show that a nonCartesian firstperson perspective belongs in the basic inventory of what exists. That is, the world that contains us persons is irreducibly personal.After arguing for the irreducibilty and ineliminability of the firstperson perspective, Baker develops a theory of this perspective. The firstperson perspective has two stages, rudimentary and robust. Human infants and nonhuman animals with consciousness and intentionality have rudimentary firstperson perspectives. In learning a language, a person acquires a robust firstperson perspective: the capacity to conceive of oneself as oneself, in the first person. By developing an account of personal identity, Baker argues that her theory is coherent, and she shows various ways in which firstperson perspectives contribute to reality.
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