Personhood Beyond Humanism: Animals, Chimeras, Autonomous Agents and the Law

ISBN-13: 9783319788807 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 115 str.

Tomasz Pietrzykowski

Opis

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents.

Spis treści

Introduction.- What is Legal Personhood?.- On Juridical Humanism: The Anthropocentrism of the Legal Approach to Personhood and its Philosophical Assumptions.- The Decline of Juridical Humanism.- Neminem Laedere: Looking for a Way Out.