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Mark Rowlands

Can Animals Be Persons?

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Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Taking, as his starting point, John Locke's classic definition of a person, as a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself the same thinking thing, in different times and places, Rowlands argues that many animals can satisfy all of these conditions. A person is an individual in which four features coalesce: consciousness, rationality, self-awareness and other-awareness, and many anim… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-084604-6
  • EAN: 9780190846046
  • Produktnummer: 31052570
  • Verlag: Oxford University Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Plattform: PDF
  • Masse: 9'269 KB

Über den Autor


Mark Rowlands is Professor Philosophy at the University of Miami. He received a D.Phil. from Oxford University. He has published nineteen books, including his previous books with OUP, Can Animals be Moral? and Memory and the Self.

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