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Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1985
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- Title
- Can Animals and Machines Be Persons?: A Dialogue
- Author
- Justin Leiber
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Publication year
- 1985
- Condition
- good
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0872200027
- ISBN 13
- 9780872200029
"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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