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Explaining the Distinctiveness of Persons /

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Explaining the Distinctiveness of Persons // Christopher C Register.
作者:	Register, Christopher C.,
面頁冊數:	1 electronic resource (164 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-12B.
標題:	Philosophy. -
電子資源:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30486347
ISBN:	9798379720667

Explaining the Distinctiveness of Persons /
Register, Christopher C.,

Explaining the Distinctiveness of Persons /Christopher C Register. - 1 electronic resource (164 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-12, Section: B.

I propose a new explanation of the moral significance of persons and other morally considerable beings. The explanation appeals to a being's capacity for reflexive, valenced mental states that ground the content and weight of that being's interests. In more sophisticated forms, such mental states acquire first-personal representational content, rising to the level of what I call self-concern. Self-concern, I argue, is essential for explaining the distinctiveness of persons.In this dissertation, I motivate the self-concern explanation by showing how it solves a recent puzzle in the metaphysics of persons. I then defend closely connected theories of personal identity from a challenge posed by the cognitive psychology of the self-concept. After developing and defending this theory of why we matter, I show how it enables a sentientist explanation of the moral significance of permanently unconscious humans. Finally, I draw from the theory to develop and begin solving a new problem in the ethics of artificial intelligence.

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ISBN: 9798379720667Subjects--Topical Terms:

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