Can animals be persons?
According to the standard conception of persons, an individual qualifies as a person if it satisfies four conditions, broadly construed. First, the individual is conscious, in the sense that there is something it is like to be it. Second, it is rational, in the sense that it can execute at least some rational inferences and possesses the required materials for such inferences, such as beliefs and desires. Third, the individual must be self-aware, aware of itself as an individual persisting thro…
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- Full title :Can animals be persons? / Mark Rowlands.
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According to the standard conception of persons, an individual qualifies as a person if it satisfies four conditions, broadly construed. First, the individual is conscious, in the sense that there is something it is like to be it. Second, it is rational, in the sense that it can execute at least some rational inferences and possesses the required materials for such inferences, such as beliefs and desires. Third, the individual must be self-aware, aware of itself as an individual persisting through time. Finally, it must be other-aware, aware of the mindedness of others. This book argues that many animals can satisfy all of these conditions and so qualify as persons.
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- Publication Date:2019
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- Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2019
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- Description:1 online resource (xi, 213 pages.)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780190846060, 0190846062
- oclc:on1142202360
- LC Classification:B105.A55
- Dewey Decimal:113/.8
Table of Contents
Animals as persons: the very idea -- The ghost of clever Hans -- Consciousness in animals -- Tracking belief -- Rational animals -- Beyond the looking glass -- Pre-intentional awareness of self -- In different times and places -- Self-awareness and persons -- Other awareness: mindreading and shame -- Animals as persons and why it matters.
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