Consciousness and Moral Status

ISBN-13: 9781138221611 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 114 str.

Joshua Shepherd

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Part 1: Preliminaries  1. Introduction  2. Preliminaries: consciousness  3. Preliminaries: value  4. Preliminaries: moral status  Part 2: An account of phenomenal value  5. What it is like and beyond  6. Evaluative phenomenal properties  7. The importance of phenomenal character  8. Contra Moore on an important point  9. Hedonism about the value within consciousness  10. The bearers of phenomenal value  11. Thick experiences  12. Meta-evaluative properties  13. Evaluative spaces, part 1  14. Evaluative spaces, part 2  15. How far we have come  Part 3: Moral status and difficult cases  16. Moral Status: machines and post-persons  17. Moral status: the other animals  18. Moral status: human cases; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Joshua Shepherd is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at Carleton University, Canada, and Research Professor at the University of Barcelona, Spain.