Can animals be persons? / Mark Rowlands.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rowlands, Mark, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals (Philosophy).

Cognition in animals.

Animal psychology.

Persons--Philosophy.

Persons.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 213 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-19-084605-4

0-19-084606-2

0-19-084604-6