Can Animals and Machines be Persons?
A Dialogue
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 natura…
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- ISBN: 978-0-87220-003-6
- EAN: 9780872200036
- Produktnummer: 17678359
- Verlag: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1985
- Seitenangabe: 88 S.
- Masse: H22.0 cm x B14.7 cm x D1.3 cm 382 g
- Gewicht: 382
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
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