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Can Animals and Machines be Persons?
Justin Leiber
其他書名
A Dialogue
出版Hackett Publishing, 1985-01-01
主題Philosophy / History & Surveys / General
ISBN97808722000290872200027
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jTfsQ72qSckC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋"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