Lynne Rudder Baker (February 14, 1944 – December 24, 2017) was an American philosopher and author.
At the time of her death she was a Distinguished Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
She is the author of several books, notably Saving Belief: A Critique of Physicalism (1987), Explaining Attitudes: A Practical Approach to the Mind (1995), Persons and Bodies: A Constitution View (2000), and The Metaphysics of Everyday Life: An Essay in Practical Realism (2007).
[citation needed] Along with several other scholars, Baker delivered the 2001 Gifford Lectures in Natural Theology at the University of Glasgow, published as The Nature and Limits of Human Understanding (ed.
Baker died of heart disease on December 24, 2017, in Amherst, Massachusetts, aged 73.