Can animals be persons? /
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 c...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 213 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-209) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780190846046 0190846046 9780190846053 0190846054 9780190846060 0190846062 |