Consciousness and moral status / by Joshua Shepherd.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shepherd, J. (Joshua), author.

Series:

Routledge focus on philosophy.

Routledge focus on philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consciousness--Moral and ethical aspects.

Consciousness.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 111 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, [2018].

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments about the moral status of embryos, fetuses, and non-human animals arguably turn on the moral significance of various facts about consciousness. However, though work has been done on the moral significance of elements of consciousness, such as pain and pleasure, little explicit attention has been devoted to the ethical significance of consciousness.

Contents:

part I Preliminaries

chapter 1 Introduction / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 2 Preliminaries

Consciousness / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 3 Preliminaries

Value / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 4 Preliminaries

Moral status / Joshua Shepherd

part II An account of phenomenal value

chapter 5 What it is like and beyond / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 6 Evaluative phenomenal properties / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 7 The importance of phenomenal character / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 8 Contra Moore on an important point / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 9 Hedonism about the value within consciousness / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 10 The bearers of phenomenal value / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 11 Thick experiences / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 12 Meta-evaluative properties / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 13 Evaluative spaces, part I / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 14 Evaluative spaces, part II / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 15 How far we have come / Joshua Shepherd

part III Moral status and difficult cases

chapter 16 Moral status

Machines and post-persons / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 17 Moral status

The other animals / Joshua Shepherd

chapter 18 Moral status

Human cases / Joshua Shepherd.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781315396330

1315396335

9781315396347

1315396343

OCLC:

1031313789