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Personal Identity

Constitution View

(Text as at 06/07/2023 00:43:12)

Plug Note¹

• Thesis Text:
  1. The Constitution View is that human persons² are constituted³ by their bodies⁴ but are not identical to them, though a lot more needs to be said here.
  2. The primary source of this View is (or was) Lynne Rudder Baker⁵, starting with "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View".
  3. Baker’s account of constitution is not the standard mereological⁶ account, of some larger body being constituted by its parts, but is her own idea that requires explication. She appears to have a non-mereological view of constitution which is hard to unravel, involving the relation of one complete thing to another (or to a context).
  4. I also need to discuss her concern for primary kinds⁷, and the concept of “having of properties⁸ derivatively”.
  5. It’s unclear to me whether the brain⁹ has a special place for Baker; as far as I remember, she uniformly refers to “bodies¹⁰”.
  6. Baker also has a commitment to Persons¹¹ being substances¹² in their own right, rather than personhood being an honorific title applied to substances that at other times might not deserve the honorific.
  7. She also reifies a useful idea – that of a First-person Perspective¹³. It is the FPP that individuates persons, according to Baker, so the FPP requires explanation as well.

References

• Relevant Works cited above:
  1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View", 2000, Book, Read
• For a page of Links¹⁴ to this Note, Click here.
• Works on this topic that I’ve actually read¹⁵, include the following:-
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Brief Reply to Rosenkrantz's Comments on my 'The Ontological Status of Persons'", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Embryos and Stem­Cell Research", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - In Favour Of the Constitution View", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁶, Internal PDF Link
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Material Persons and the Doctrine of Resurrection", 2001, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Materialism with a Human Face", 2001, Write-Up Note¹⁷, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    6. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Personal Identity Over Time", 2000, Write-Up Note¹⁸, Internal PDF Link
    7. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View", 2000, Book, Footnote₁₉
    8. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons in the Material World", 2000, Write-Up Note²⁰, Internal PDF Link
    9. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'", 2001, Write-Up Note²¹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    10. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Reply to Zimmerman’s 'Christians Should Affirm Mind-Body Dualism'", 2004, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    11. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson", 2008, Write-Up Note²², External Link, Internal PDF Link
    12. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Coherence Of the Constitution View of Human Persons", 2000, Write-Up Note²³, Internal PDF Link
    13. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes", 2003, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    14. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - The Ontological Status of Persons", 2002, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - What Am I?", 1999, Write-Up Note²⁴, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₅
    16. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Do Persons Begin and End?", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    17. "Baker (Lynne Rudder), Etc. - E-Symposium on 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'", 2001, Book
    18. "Blatti (Stephan) - Animalism Unburdened", 2005, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    19. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Biology or Psychology? Human Persons and Personal Identity", 2003, Annotations
    20. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature: Introduction - What Kind of Things Are We?", 2006
    21. "DeGrazia (David) - Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply", 2002, Write-Up Note²⁶, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Footnote₂₇
    22. "Garrett (Brian) - The Story of I: Some Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'", 2001, Write-Up Note²⁸, Annotations
    23. "Hershenov (David) - Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'", 2007, Annotations, External Link, Internal PDF Link
    24. "Johnston (Mark) - Human Beings", 1987, Write-Up Note²⁹, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    25. "Kazez (Jean) - The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children", 2017
    26. "Loose (Jonathan) - Constitution and the Falling Elevator: The Continuing Incompatibility of Materialism and Resurrection Belief", 2012, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    27. "Merricks (Trenton) - Objects & Persons: Preface", 2001
    28. "Olson (Eric) - Thinking Animals and the Constitution View", 2001, Write-Up Note³⁰, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    29. "Olson (Eric) - What Are We? Constitution", 2007, Write-Up Note³¹, Internal PDF Link
    30. "Rosenkrantz (Gary) - Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons", 2002, Internal PDF Link
    31. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Philosophers and the Words 'Human Body'", 1980, Annotations, Internal PDF Link
    32. "Van Inwagen (Peter) - Reply to Reviewers", 1993, Annotations, No Abstract, Internal PDF Link
• A further reading list (which needs a review) might start with:-
  • General:
    1. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Everyday Concepts as a Guide to Reality", 2006, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    2. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - On Being One’s Own Person", 2004, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    3. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and the Natural Order", 2007, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 11%
    4. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Review of 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person' by Hud Hudson", 2003, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 17%
    5. "Baker (Lynne Rudder) - When Does a Person Begin?", 2005, External Link, Internal PDF Link, Read = 5%
    6. "Buckareff (Andrei A.) & Van Wagenen (Joel S.) - Surviving Resurrection", 2010, Internal PDF Link, Read = 7%
    7. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Persons, Bodies and the Constitution Relation", 1999
    8. "Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul", 2006, Book, Read = 13%
    9. "Danto (Arthur) - The Artworld", 1964, Internal PDF Link
    10. "DeGrazia (David) - Human Persons: Numerical Identity and Essence", 2005, Internal PDF Link, Read = 6%
    11. "Lizza (John) - Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death", 2006, Book, Read = 2%
    12. "Lowe (E.J.) - Identity, Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self", 2001
    13. "Mellor (D.H.) - Micro-composition", 2008, Internal PDF Link, Read = 33%
    14. "Olson (Eric) - Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism", 2003, Internal PDF Link
    15. "Thomson (Judith Jarvis) - People and Their Bodies", 1997, Read = 12%
    16. "Wasserman (Ryan) - The Constitution Question", 2004, Annotations, Internal PDF Link, Read = 67%
    17. "Wilson (Robert) - Persons, Social Agency, and Constitution", 2005, Internal PDF Link
    18. "Zahavi (Dan) - Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective", 2005, Book, Read = 4%

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• For a list of Works that have been considered, but have missed the cut for inclusion in this Section of my Thesis, see the following:-
  1. Read: No items to list.
  2. Further Reading: No items to list.
• This is mostly a place-holder³².

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In-Page Footnotes:

Footnote 19:

• The whole book is relevant, but the most relevant Chapters are also listed separately.

Footnote 25:

• See Draft Note, Review Comments.

Footnote 27:

• See Skeleton Note.

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Table of the Previous 9 Versions of this Note:

Date	Length	Title
28/09/2022 10:24:58	5013	Constitution View
09/05/2022 17:15:22	4441	Constitution View
09/02/2021 21:59:02	4254	Constitution View
30/11/2019 22:58:05	2678	Constitution View
24/06/2018 16:32:10	4714	Constitution View
06/02/2018 23:35:31	3519	Constitution View
18/12/2010 19:58:05	746	Constitution View
26/11/2007 23:25:26	650	Constitution View
12/08/2007 10:17:46	543	Constitution View

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Note last updated	Reading List for this Topic	Parent Topic
06/07/2023 00:43:12	Constitution View	Constitution

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Summary of Notes Referenced by This Note

Awaiting Attention (Personal Identity)	Baker	Baker - In Favour Of the Constitution View	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face	Baker - Personal Identity Over Time
Baker - Persons and Bodies - Precis	Baker - Persons in the Material World	Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?	Baker - The Coherence Of the Constitution View of Human Persons	Baker - What Am I?
Body	Brain	Brandom - Toward a Normative Pragmatics (Introduction)	Constitution	DeGrazia - Are We Essentially Persons?
First-Person Perspective	Garrett - Persons and Bodies - Response	Human Persons	Jen_080317 (Baker)	Johnston - Human Beings
Kinds	Mereology	Note Links Explanation	Olson - Persons and Bodies - Response	Olson - What Are We? Constitution
Person	Plug Note Apologia	Properties	Substance	Works Read - Explanation

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Summary of Notes Citing This Note

Abbreviations	Animalism - Arguments For	Animalism - Objections	Artifacts	Baker, 2
Baker - In Favour Of the Constitution View, 2, 3	Baker - Materialism with a Human Face, 2, 3, 4	Baker - Personal Identity Over Time, 2	Baker - Persons in the Material World, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Baker - Review - Olson - What Are We?
Baker - The Coherence Of the Constitution View of Human Persons	Baker - The Constitution View of Human Persons, 2	Baker - The First-Person Perspective	Baker - The Importance Of Being a Person, 2	Bodily Continuity
Coincidence	Computers	Constitution View - Objections, 2, 3	Corpses	DeGrazia - Are We Essentially Persons?, 2
First-Person Perspective	Holes & Smiles	Human Beings	Hybrid Theories	Hylomorphism, 2
Intermittent Objects	Johnston - Human Beings, 2, 3	Kinds	Mereology, 2	Multiple Personality Disorder
Noonan - Persons and Bodies - Response, 2	Occasional Identity	Olson	Olson - What Are We? Animals, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Olson - What Are We? Constitution, 2
Olson - What Are We? The Question, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Olson - What Are We? What Now?	Origins	Personite	PID Note, Book & Paper Usage, 2, 3, 4
Properties	Psychological Continuity	Psychological Continuity - Forward	Psychology	Reductionism
Replication	Research - Proposal	Simple View	Statue and the Clay, 2	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction), 2
Thesis - Chapter 02 (What are We?), 2, 3, 4	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time), 2, 3	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4
Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View), 2, 3, 4, 5	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments), 2	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)
Thesis - Current Stance	Thesis - Method & Form	Thesis - Personal Identity, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37	Thinking Animal Argument, 2	Time
Unity of the Person, 2	Website Generator Documentation - Functors, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Wittgenstein	Zombies

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Authors, Books & Papers Citing this Note

Author	Title	Medium	Extra Links	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	N/A	Author
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Animalism vs. Constitutionalism	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Artifacts	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Death and the Afterlife	Paper	2
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Everyday Concepts as a Guide to Reality	Paper	2, 3
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Human Persons	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	In Favour Of the Constitution View	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Material Persons and the Doctrine of Resurrection	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Mereology and Constitution	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View - Preface	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Other Things	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and the Metaphysics of Resurrection	Paper	2, 3
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and the Natural Order	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Reply to Zimmerman’s 'Christians Should Affirm Mind-Body Dualism'	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The First-Person Perspective	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Importance Of Being a Person	Paper	2	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism	Book	2
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Metaphysics of Malfunction	Paper
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Ontological Status of Persons	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	What Am I?	Paper		Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Does a Person Begin?	Paper
Blatti (Stephan)	A New Argument for Animalism	Paper
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism and its Implications	Paper	2	Yes
Blatti (Stephan)	Animalism Unburdened	Paper		Yes
Buckareff (Andrei A.) & Van Wagenen (Joel S.)	Surviving Resurrection	Paper	2, 3
Campbell (Scott)	The Conception of a Person as a Series of Mental Events	Paper	2
Claxton (Guy)	Intelligence in the Flesh - Limbering Up: An Introduction	Paper		Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	Constitution, Resurrection, and Relationality	Paper
Corcoran (Kevin)	I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to Come	Paper	2
Corcoran (Kevin)	Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	Book	2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Corcoran (Kevin)	The Constitution View	Paper	2
Corcoran (Kevin)	The Constitution View and the Bible: Some Final Thoughts	Paper
Corcoran (Kevin)	The Stem Cell Challenge	Paper	2, 3
DeGrazia (David)	Are we essentially persons? Olson, Baker, and a reply	Paper	2	Yes
DeGrazia (David)	Human Persons: Numerical Identity and Essence	Paper	2
Garrett (Brian)	The Story of I: Some Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Gasser (Georg)	Personal Identity and Resurrection: Bibliography	Paper		Yes
Hershenov (David)	Review of Nancey Murphy's 'Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?'	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Johnston (Mark)	From Anatta To Agape	Paper
Johnston (Mark)	Human Beings	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Kazez (Jean)	The Philosophical Parent: Asking the Hard Questions About Having and Raising Children	Paper		Yes
Larkin (William S.)	Persons, Animals, and Bodies	Paper
Liao (S. Matthew)	The Organism View Defended	Paper		Yes
Lockwood (Michael)	When Does a Life Begin?	Paper	2	Yes
Monso (Susana)	What animals think of death	Paper		Yes
Murphy (Nancey)	Bodies and Souls, or Spirited Bodies?	Book
Nguyen (Doyen)	Death: The Loss of Life-Constitutive Integration	Paper
Noller (Jorg)	A Transformative Account of Personal Identity	Paper	2
Noller (Jorg)	Beyond Animalism and Constitutionalism: The Person as A Form of Life	Paper
Noller (Jorg)	Person	Paper
Noonan (Harold)	Arguments Against Animalism: Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Animalism and the Remnant-Person Problem	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Persistence	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Olson (Eric)	Psychology and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	Review of P. Snowdon, Persons, Animals, Ourselves	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	The Zombies Among Us	Paper
Olson (Eric)	Thinking Animals and the Constitution View	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We?	Paper		Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Animals	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper	2	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? The Question	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? What Now?	Paper		Yes
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book	2, 3
Quitterer (Josef)	Hylomorphism and the Constitution View	Paper	2
Snowdon (Paul)	Persons, Animals, Ourselves: Introduction	Paper		Yes
Snowdon (Paul)	The Self and Personal Identity	Paper		Yes
Thompson (Jon W.)	Individuation, Identity, and Resurrection in Thomas Jackson and John Locke	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Abbreviations	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism - Arguments For	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Animalism - Objections	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Artifacts	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Baker	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Bodily Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 01 (Introduction)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 02 (What Are We?)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 03 (What is a Person?)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 04 (Basic Metaphysical Issues)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 05 (Persistence and Time)	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 06 (Animalism and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 07 (The Constitution View and Arguments for It)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 08 (Arguments against Animalism)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 09 (Arguments against the Constitution View)	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 10 (Thought Experiments)	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Chapter 11 (Resurrection)	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Coincidence	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Computers	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View - Objections	Paper	2, 3	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Corpses	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Current Position	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - First-Person Perspective	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Holes & Smiles	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Human Beings	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hybrid Theories	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Hylomorphism	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Intermittent Objects	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Kinds	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Mereology	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Multiple Personality Disorder	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Occasional Identity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Olson	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Origins	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personal Identity	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Personite	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Properties	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychological Continuity - Forward	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Psychology	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Reductionism	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Replication	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Simple View	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Statue and the Clay	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - The Form of the Argument	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Thinking Animal Argument	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Time	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Unity of the Person	Paper	2	Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Wittgenstein	Paper		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Zombies	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Material Beings: Preface	Paper		Yes
Van Inwagen (Peter)	Materialism and the Psychological-continuity Account of Personal Identity	Paper	2	Yes
Wasserman (Ryan)	The Constitution Question	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Wilson (Robert)	Persons, Social Agency, and Constitution	Paper	2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
Zimmerman (Dean)	Video: Does God Know Our First-Person Perspectives?	Paper	2	Yes

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References & Reading List

Author	Title	Medium	Source	Read?
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	A Metaphysical Framework for the First-Person Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 8	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Agents, Artifacts, Moral Responsibility: Some Contributions of the First-Person Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 9	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Animalism vs. Constitutionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Blatti & Snowdon - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, 2016: Part I, Chapter 3, pp. 50-63	42%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Arguments against First-Person Naturalization	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 5	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Brief Reply to Rosenkrantz's Comments on my 'The Ontological Status of Persons'	Paper - Cited	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65, September 2002, pp. 394-395	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Eliminative Approaches to the First-Person Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 4	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Embryos and Stem­Cell Research	Paper - By Subtopic	UMass Magazine, Spring 2006	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Everyday Concepts as a Guide to Reality	Paper - Cited	The Monist, Vol. 89, No. 3, Coming into Being and Passing Away (July 2006), pp. 313-333	6%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	First-Person Aspects of Agency	Paper - By Subtopic	SISTM Quarterly, 2:10–16, 1979. Renamed Journal of Cognitive Science	17%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	First-Person Externalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Modern Schoolman, 84:155–70, 2007	7%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	First-Personal Aspects of Agency	Paper - By Subtopic	Metaphilosophy, 42(1-2):1–16, 2011	7%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	From the Rudimentary to the Robust Stage of the First-Person Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 6	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	In Favour Of the Constitution View	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 9, pp. 213-229	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Is the Idea of the First-Person Perspective Coherent?	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 7	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Material Persons and the Doctrine of Resurrection	Paper - By Subtopic	Faith and Philosophy 18 (2001): 151-167	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Materialism with a Human Face	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Chapter 10	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Metaphysics and Mental Causation	Paper - By Subtopic	John Heil and Albert Mele, editors, Mental Causation, pages 75–95. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993	6%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Natural Reality	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 10	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective	Book - Referenced	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective	19%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective: What Is The Problem?	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Introduction	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Naturalism and the Idea of Nature	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy, Volume 92.3, July 2017, pp. 333–349	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	On Being One’s Own Person	Paper - By Subtopic	Reasons of One’s Own, Maureen Sie, Bert van Den Brink, Marc Slors, eds. (Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing Limitied, 2004): 129-149	6%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	On Making Things Up: Constitution and Its Critics	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Topics 30 (2002) - Identity and Individuation : 31-52	6%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	On Naturalizing the First-Person Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 2	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity Over Time	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 5, pp. 118-146	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Personal Identity: A Not-So-Simple Simple View	Paper - By Subtopic	Gasser (Georg) & Stefan (Matthias), Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple? 2012	8%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Book - Cited	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View - Preface	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Preface	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Persons in the Material World	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 1, pp. 3-88	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Precis of 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Paper - By Subtopic	Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, 2001, e-Symposium on "Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View"	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Reductive Approaches to the First-Person Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 3	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Replies to Zimmerman, Rea & Pereboom	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64.3 (May 2002), pp. 623-635	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Reply to Garrett	Paper - By Subtopic	Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, 2001, e-Symposium on "Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View"	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'A Materialist Metaphysics of the Human Person' by Hud Hudson	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 112 (2003): 148-151	17%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'The Body in Mind' by Mark Rowlands	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 109 (2000): 434-7	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'The Emergent Self' by William Hasker	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2002): 734-736	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Review of 'What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology' by Eric T. Olson	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 117:1120-1122, 2008	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Social Externalism and First-Person Authority	Paper - By Subtopic	Erkenntnis, 67:287–300, 2007	8%
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 8, pp. 191-212	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Coherence Of the Idea of Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 7, pp. 167-190	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Constitution View of Human Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 4, 91-117	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Difference that Self-Consciousness Makes	Paper - By Subtopic	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The First-Person Perspective	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 3, pp. 59-88	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The First-Person Perspective: A Test For Naturalism	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, 35.4, Oct. 1998	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Importance Of Being a Person	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 6, pp. 147-163	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Ontological Status of Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65, September 2002, pp. 370-388	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Ontology of Artifacts	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Explorations, Jun2004, Vol. 7 Issue 2, p99-111, 13p	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	The Very Idea of Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne) - Persons and Bodies, Chapter 2, pp. 27-58	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	Varieties of Naturalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Baker (Lynne Rudder) - Naturalism and the First-Person Perspective, Chapter 1	No
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Do Persons Begin and End?	Paper - By Subtopic	Distinguished Faculty Lecture, December 5, 2005	Yes
Baker (Lynne Rudder)	When Does a Person Begin?	Paper - By Subtopic	Paul, Miller & Paul - Personal Identity, 2005	5%
Baker (Lynne Rudder), Etc.	E-Symposium on 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Book - Cited	Baker (Lynne Rudder), Etc. - E-Symposium on 'Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View'	Yes
Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds.	Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Blatti (Stephan) & Snowdon (Paul), Eds. - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity	22%
Burke (Michael)	Dion and Theon: An Essentialist Solution to an Ancient Puzzle	Paper - By Subtopic	Journal of Philosophy 91, No. 3 (March 1994), 129-139	Yes
Burke (Michael)	Dion, Theon, and the many-thinkers problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Analysis 64, July 2004, Vol. Issue 3, p242-250, 9p	No
Burke (Michael)	Is My Head a Person?	Paper - By Subtopic	Petrus - On Human Persons, 2003	Yes
Burke (Michael)	Persons and Bodies: How to Avoid the New Dualism	Paper - By Subtopic	American Philosophical Quarterly, 34 (4), 1997: 457-467	Yes
Burke (Michael)	Preserving the Principle of One Object to a Place: A Novel Account of the Relations Amongst Objects, Sorts, Sortals, and Persistence Conditions	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research liv (1994), pp. 591–624	Yes
Burke (Michael)	Tibbles the Cat: A Modern Sophisma	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 84:63-74, 1996	No
Chihara (Charles S.)	The Many Persons Problem	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 76, 45-49, 1994	No
Corcoran (Kevin)	I Believe in the Resurrection of the Body and the Life of the World to Come	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature, Chapter 5	13%
Corcoran (Kevin)	Persons, Bodies and the Constitution Relation	Paper - By Subtopic	Southern Journal of Philosophy 37:1, 1999, pp. 1-20	No
Corcoran (Kevin)	Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	Book - Cited	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature: A Christian Materialist Alternative to the Soul	13%
Corcoran (Kevin)	Rethinking Human Nature: Introduction - What Kind of Things Are We?	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature, Introduction	Yes
Corcoran (Kevin)	The Constitution View	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature, Chapter 3	13%
Corcoran (Kevin)	The Constitution View and the Bible: Some Final Thoughts	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature, Chapter 6	8%
Corcoran (Kevin)	The Stem Cell Challenge	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran (Kevin) - Rethinking Human Nature, Chapter 4	7%
Corcoran (Kevin), Ed.	Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Corcoran (Kevin), Ed. - Soul, Body and Survival: Essays on the Metaphysics of Human Persons	99%
Dancy (Jonathan), Ed.	Reading Parfit	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Dancy (Jonathan), Ed. - Reading Parfit	17%
De Monticelli (Roberta)	Constitution and Unity: Lynne Baker and the Unitarian Tradition	Paper - By Subtopic	The Monist, Vol. 96, No. 1, Constitution and Composition (January, 2013), pp. 3-36	7%
Doepke (Frederick)	Spatially Coinciding Objects	Paper - By Subtopic	Rea - Material Constitution - A Reader	Yes
Doepke (Frederick)	The Constitution Relation	Paper - By Subtopic	Doepke - The Kinds of Things, Chapter 7	10%
Doepke (Frederick)	The Kinds of Things: A Theory of Personal Identity Based on Transcendental Argument	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Doepke (Frederick) - The Kinds of Things: A Theory of Personal Identity Based on Transcendental Argument	3%
Ehring (Douglas)	Personal identity and the R-relation: Reconciliation through cohabitation?	Paper - By Subtopic	Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 73, Number 3, September 1995, pp. 337-346(10).	11%
Ehring (Douglas)	Personal Identity and Time Travel	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Nov., 1987), pp. 427-433	Yes
Garrett (Brian)	The Story of I: Some Comments on L.R.Baker 'Persons & Bodies'	Paper - By Subtopic	Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, 2001, e-Symposium on "Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View"	Yes
Gasser (Georg) & Stefan (Matthias), Eds.	Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?	Book - By Subtopic	Gasser (Georg) & Stefan (Matthias), Eds. - Personal Identity: Complex or Simple?	4%
Hershenov (David)	Lowe's Defense of Constitution and the Principle of Weak Extensionality	Paper - By Subtopic	Ratio, 21:2, June 2008, 168-181	No
Hershenov (David)	Problems with a Constitution Account of Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Dialogue. 48:2. 2009, 291-312	3%
Lizza (John)	Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death	Book - Cited	Lizza (John) - Persons, Humanity, & the Definition of Death	2%
Lowe (E.J.)	Identity, Composition, and the Simplicity of the Self	Paper - By Subtopic	Corcoran - Soul, Body and Survival, Chapter 9	No
Merricks (Trenton)	Objects & Persons: Preface	Paper - By Subtopic	Merricks - Objects and Persons, 2001, Preface	Yes
Merricks (Trenton)	Objects and Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Merricks (Trenton) - Objects and Persons	7%
Noller (Jorg)	A Transformative Account of Personal Identity	Paper - By Subtopic	Academia.edu	40%
Noller (Jorg)	Beyond Animalism and Constitutionalism: The Person as A Form of Life	Paper - By Subtopic	Retrieved from Academia.edu	17%
Noller (Jorg)	Person	Paper - By Subtopic	Online Encyclopedia Philosophy of Nature – OEPN, 2019	25%
Olson (Eric)	Lowe's Defence of Constitutionalism	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 53, Number 210, January 2003, pp. 92-95(4)	No
Olson (Eric)	Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - Papers on Identity Boxes: Vol 13 (Olson)	16%
Olson (Eric)	Review of Lynne Baker's 'Persons And Bodies'	Paper - By Subtopic	Mind, 110, Number 438, April 2001, pp. 427-430(4)	No
Olson (Eric)	The Zombies Among Us	Paper - By Subtopic	Nous, 52(1), March 2018, 216-226	8%
Olson (Eric)	Thinking Animals and the Constitution View	Paper - By Subtopic	Field Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, 2001, e-Symposium on "Persons & Bodies: A Constitution View"	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Olson (Eric) - What are We? A Study of Personal Ontology	Yes
Olson (Eric)	What Are We? Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	What Are We? A Study in Personal Ontology, Chapter 3 (November 2007: Oxford University Press.)	Yes
Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey), Eds.	Personal Identity	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Paul (Ellen), Miller (Fred) & Paul (Jeffrey), Eds. - Personal Identity	0%
Pereboom (Derek)	On Baker's Persons and Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64.3 (May 2002), pp. 615-622	No
Petrus (Klaus), Ed.	On Human Persons	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Petrus (Klaus), Ed. - On Human Persons	73%
Rea (Michael)	Constitution and Kind Membership	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophical Studies 97: 169-193, 2000	No
Rea (Michael)	Lynne Baker on Material Constitution	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64.3 (May 2002), pp. 607-614	No
Rea (Michael), Ed.	Material Constitution - A Reader	Book - By Subtopic (via Paper By Subtopic)	Rea (Michael), Ed. - Material Constitution - A Reader	41%
Robinson (Denis)	Constitution and the Debate between Animalism and Psychological Views	Paper - By Subtopic	Blatti & Snowdon - Animalism: New Essays on Persons, Animals, and Identity, 2016: Part I, Chapter 4, pp. 64-88	24%
Rosenkrantz (Gary)	Reflections on the Ontological Status of Persons	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 65, September 2002, pp. 389-393	Yes
Thomson (Judith Jarvis)	People and Their Bodies	Paper - By Subtopic	Dancy - Reading Parfit, 1997, Chapter 10	12%
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Todman (Theo)	Thesis - Constitution View - Objections	Paper - By Subtopic		Yes
Zahavi (Dan)	Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective	Book - Cited	Zahavi (Dan) - Subjectivity and Selfhood: Investigating the First-Person Perspective	4%
Zimmerman (Dean)	Persons and Bodies: Constitution Without Mereology?	Paper - By Subtopic	Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64.3 (May 2002), pp. 599-606	No

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