What is a person? : untapped insights from Africa / Nancy S. Jecker, Caesar A. Atuire.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jecker, Nancy Ann Silbergeld, author.

Atuire, Caesar A., author.

Series:

Philosophy across borders.

Oxford scholarship online.

Philosophy across borders

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persons--Philosophy.

Persons.

Human beings--Philosophy.

Human beings.

Philosophy, African.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

This text introduces a provocative new view of personhood that philosophers Nancy S. Jecker and Caesar A. Atuire call Emergent Personhood. It builds on philosophies from Africa and the West to argue that individuals' moral worth emerges through ocial relational processes with other human beings. The authors show the implications of Emergent Personhood for human beings across the lifespan, animals, nature, and non-living lands, soil, and rocks on earth and in space. The book considers the possibility of ascribing moral standing to machines, including large language models and social robots. Jecker and Atuire's collaboration represents the first-time philosophers from Africa and the West have joined forces to consider personhood. Their new philosophy of persons combines strengths of African and Western thought.

Contents:

Cover

Series

What Is a Person?

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Tables

Preface

List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Philosophy Across Borders

PART I: HUMAN PERSONS

1. A Conversation between Africa and the West

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Key Concepts

1.3 Contemporary African and Western Views

1.4 Precursors of Contemporary African and Western Views

1.5 Conclusion

2. Emergent Personhood

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Five Features

2.3 Emergent Personhood

2.4 Abortion

2.5 Conclusion

3. Personhood Across the Lifespan

3.1 Introduction

3.2 African and Early Greek Personhood Across the Lifespan

3.3 Contemporary Western Personhood Across the Lifespan

3.4 Emergent Personhood Across the Lifespan

3.5 Replies to Objections

3.6 Conclusion

4. Becoming a Non-​Person

4.1 Introduction

4.2 The Death of Persons and Human Beings

4.3 Replies to Objections

4.4 Hastening Death

4.5 Conclusion

PART II: NON- HUMAN PERSONS

5. Zombies and Robots

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Are Zombies Persons?

5.3 Could Machines Be Persons?

5.4 Replies to Objections

5.5 Conclusion

6. Animals and Nature

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Animals

6.3 Non-​Animal Nature

6.4 Replies to Objections

6.5 Conclusion

7. Space Aliens and Terraforming

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Space Aliens and Extraterrestrial Life

7.3 Terraforming Mars

7.4 Conclusion

Epilogue

Notes

Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780197690956

0197690955

9780197690932

0197690939

9780197690949

0197690947

OCLC:

1500766405