Joshua Shepherd

Consciousness and Moral Status

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 124
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 297g
• ISBN-13: 9781138221611
• ISBN-10: 1138221619
• Artikelnr.: 52961052

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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