Consciousness and moral status / Joshua Shepherd.
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...
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
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2018.
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| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Part I Preliminaries -- |t chapter 1 Introduction / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 2 Preliminaries -- |t Consciousness / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 3 Preliminaries -- |t Value / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 4 Preliminaries -- |t Moral status / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t part II An account of phenomenal value -- |t chapter 5 What it is like and beyond / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 6 Evaluative phenomenal properties / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 7 The importance of phenomenal character / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 8 Contra Moore on an important point / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 9 Hedonism about the value within consciousness / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 10 The bearers of phenomenal value / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 11 Thick experiences / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 12 Meta-evaluative properties / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 13 Evaluative spaces, part I / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 14 Evaluative spaces, part II / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 15 How far we have come / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t part III Moral status and difficult cases -- |t chapter 16 Moral status -- |t Machines and post-persons / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 17 Moral status -- |t The other animals / |r Joshua Shepherd -- |t chapter 18 Moral status -- |t Human cases / |r Joshua Shepherd. |
| 520 | 3 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | 3 | |a 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. | |
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