Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?: A Dialogue

Justin Leiber

ISBN 10: 0872200027 / ISBN 13: 9780872200029

Verlag: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1985

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Inhaltsangabe:

"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

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?: A ...
Verlag: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Erscheinungsdatum: 1985
Einband: Softcover
Zustand: good