Can animals be persons?

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Can animals be persons? Scientific and philosophical consensus supplies a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. A person is an individual in which consciousness, rationality, self-awareness and other-awareness converge, and many animals are such individuals.

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Full title :Can animals be persons? / Mark Rowlands.

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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 (233 pages)

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ISBN:9780190846046, 0190846046, 9780190846053, 0190846054, 9780190846060, 0190846062
oclc:on1097983296
LC Classification:B105.A55
Dewey Decimal:113/.8

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.