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Can Animals and Machines be Persons?
Justin Leiber
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Description for Can Animals and Machines be Persons?
Hardcover. Presents a dialogue about the notion of a person, of an entity that thinks and feels and acts, that counts and is accountable. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 382.
"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 ... Read more
"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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
87
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1985
Condition
New
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
Cambridge, MA, United States
ISBN
9780872200036
SKU
V9780872200036
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Reviews for Can Animals and Machines be Persons?
"Written in a lively and entertaining style, this little book, which deals with topics such as 'personhood,' animal rights, and artificial intelligence . . . makes some rather difficult philosophical points clear in an unpedantic fashion."
M. E. Winston, Trenton State College "A delightful book, beautifully written and psychologically acute."
Peter T. Manicas, Queens College, CUNY
M. E. Winston, Trenton State College "A delightful book, beautifully written and psychologically acute."
Peter T. Manicas, Queens College, CUNY