Can Animals and Machines be Persons?: A Dialogue - Couverture souple

Leiber, Justin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0872200027 ISBN 13 : 9780872200029

Editeur : Hackett Publishing Co, Inc, 1985

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

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Revue de presse

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 A delightful book, beautifully written and psychologically acute. --Peter T. Manicas, Queens College, CUNY 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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Hackett Publishing Co, Inc
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0872200027
• ISBN 13: 9780872200029
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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