Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?

Name: Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?
Brand: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
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A Dialogue

Written by Justin Leiber

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"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

ISBN-13: 9780872200029
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Imprint: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
Publication date: 15 March 1985
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
Dimensions: 216 x 140 mm
Language: English