TY - JOUR AU - Kıymaz, Tufan PY - 2018/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Baker’s Theory of Material Constitution and Thinking Things into Existence JF - Filozofia Nauki JA - FN VL - 26 IS - 4 SE - Artykuły DO - 10.14394/filnau.2018.0023 UR - https://fn.uw.edu.pl/index.php/fn/article/view/1029 SP - 49-56 AB - <p>The paper provides a critical evaluation of Lynne Rudder Baker’s nonmereological theory of&nbsp;material constitution in light of the “thinking into existence” objection, formulated by Theodore&nbsp;Sider and Dean W. Zimmerman. Although Baker responds to it, she focuses on its specific versions presented by Sider and Zimmerman and does not address the source of the problem. Baker&nbsp;maintains that beliefs, social practices, and conventions can bring a new intention-dependent<br>object into existence. However, as I argue, the thinking into existence objection shows that constituted objects, if there are any, are ontologically independent of beliefs, social practices, and&nbsp;conventions. In fact, Baker’s theory doesn’t give us any reason for believing that intention-dependent objects are any more real than fictional objects.</p> ER -