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Consciousness and moral status / Joshua Shepherd
(Routledge focus on philosophy)
| データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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| 出版者 | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge |
| 出版年 | 2018 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | 1 online resource (1 PDF file (111 pages)) |
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| 資料種別 | 機械可読データファイル |
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| 一般注記 | This book presents a systematic account of the moral value of consciousness. It explores important questions such as the moral significance of intelligence, the potential difference in value between human and non-human consciousness, and ways that the structure of conscious experience influences the value of consciousness for a subject both over time It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments about the moral status of embryos, fetuses, and non-human animals arguably turn on the moral significance of various facts about consciousness. However, though work has been done on the moral significance of elements of consciousness, such as pain and pleasure, little explicit attention has been devoted to the ethical significance of consciousness. In this book Joshua Shepherd presents a systematic account of the value present within conscious experience. This account emphasizes not only the nature of consciousness, but also the importance of items within experience such as affect, valence, and the complex overall shape of particular valuable experiences. Shepherd also relates this account to difficult cases involving non-humans and humans with disorders of consciousness, arguing that the value of consciousness influences and partially explains the degree of moral status a being possesses, without fully determining it. The upshot is a deeper understanding of both the moral importance of phenomenal consciousness and its relations to moral status. This book will be of great interest to philosophers and students of ethics, bioethics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science Open Access English Includes bibliographical references and index "Routledge Focus." Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed June 25, 2019) |
| 著者標目 | *Shepherd, J. |
| 件 名 | FREE:Systematic account FREE:Conscious experience FREE:Nature FREE:Affect FREE:Valence FREE:Humans FREE:Non-humans FREE:Phenomenal consciousness FREE:Moral status LCSH:Consciousness -- Moral and ethical aspects 全ての件名で検索 MESH:Consciousness MESH:Morals FREE:Philosophy LCSH:Electronic books BSH:Electronic books |
| 分 類 | DC23:128/.2 |
| 書誌ID | ED00003825 |
| ISBN | 9781315396347 |