European University Institute Library

Can animals be persons?, Mark Rowlands

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Can animals be persons?

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Mark Rowlands

Oxford scholarship online.

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.--, Provided by publisher

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