Can Animals Be Persons?

by Mark Rowlands

Book Overview

Can animals be persons? To this question, scientific and philosophical consensus has taken the form of a resounding, 'No ' In this book, Mark Rowlands disagrees. Not only can animals be persons, many of them probably are. Taking, as his starting point, John Locke's classic definition of a person, as "a thinking intelligent being, that has reason and reflection, and can consider itself the same thinking thing, in different times and places," Rowlands...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190846038
• ISBN13: 9780190846039
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.4"