Can Animals and Machines Be Persons? A Dialogue
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"This is a dialogue about the notion of a person, of an entity that thinks and feels and acts, that counts and is accountable. Equivalently, it's about the intentional idiom--the well-knit fabric of terms that we use to characterize persons. Human beings are usually persons (a brain-dead human might be considered a human but not a person). However, there may be persons, in various senses, that are not human beings. Much recent discussion has focused on hypothetical computer-robots and on actual nonhuman great apes. The discussion here is naturalistic, which is to say that count and accountability are, at least initially, presumed to be naturally well-knit with the possession of a cognitive and affective life." --Justin Leiber, from the Introduction
Book information
ISBN: | 9780872200036 |
Publisher: | Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. |
Imprint: | Hackett Publishing Company |
Pub date: | 15 Mar 1985 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 88 |
Weight: | 382g |
Height: | 220mm |
Width: | 147mm |
Spine width: | 13mm |