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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rowlands, Mark (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Subjects:
Animals (Philosophy)
Animaux (Philosophie)
SCIENCE > Cosmology.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Animals as persons: the very idea
  • The ghost of clever Hans
  • Consciousness in animals
  • Tracking belief
  • Rational animals
  • Beyond the looking glass
  • Pre-intentional awareness of self
  • In different times and places
  • Self-awareness and persons
  • Other awareness: mindreading and shame
  • Animals as persons and why it matters.