Can animals be persons? Scientific and philosophical consensus supplies a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. A person is an individual in which consciousness, rationality, self-awareness and other-awareness converge, and many animals are such individuals.
Can animals be persons? Scientific and philosophical consensus supplies a resounding, 'No!' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. A person is an individual in which consciousness, rationality, self-awareness and other-awareness converge, and many animals are such individuals.
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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Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Animals as Persons: The Very Idea Chapter 2: The Ghost of Clever Hans Chapter 3: Consciousness in Animals Chapter 4: Tracking Belief Chapter 5: Rational Animals Chapter 6: Beyond the Looking Glass Chapter 7: Pre-Intentional Awareness of Self Chapter 8: In Different Times and Places Chapter 9: Self-Awareness and Persons Chapter 10: Other Awareness: Mindreading and Shame Chapter 11: Animals as Persons and Why It Matters
Preface and Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Animals as Persons: The Very Idea Chapter 2: The Ghost of Clever Hans Chapter 3: Consciousness in Animals Chapter 4: Tracking Belief Chapter 5: Rational Animals Chapter 6: Beyond the Looking Glass Chapter 7: Pre-Intentional Awareness of Self Chapter 8: In Different Times and Places Chapter 9: Self-Awareness and Persons Chapter 10: Other Awareness: Mindreading and Shame Chapter 11: Animals as Persons and Why It Matters
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