Can Animals Be Persons?

ISBN: 9780190846039 出版年：2019 页码：233 Rowlands, Mark Oxford University Press

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