The Ethics of Consciousness

by Walter Glannon

This Element examines the main ethical aspects of consciousness It argues that consciousness is not intrinsically valuable but has value or disvalue for individuals depending on its phenomenology (what it is like to be aware) and content (what one is aware of). These two components of awareness shape normative judgments about how ordered, disordered, altered, restored, diminished and suppressed conscious states can benefit or harm individuals. They...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009078046
• ISBN13: 9781009078047
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"