Can Animals And Machines Be Persons?: A Dialogue

By: Justin Leiber

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Synopsis: "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 naturally well-knit with the possession of a cognitive and affective life. " --Justin Leiber, from the Introduction

Book Quality:: Excellent
ISBN-13:: 9780872200029
Publisher:: Hackett Publishing Company, Incorporated
Date of Addition:: 11/23/16
Copyrighted By:: Justin Leiber
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Animals, Computers and Internet, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Philosophy
Submitted By:: Daproim Africa
Proofread By:: Daproim Africa
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.