Moral personhood : an essay in the philosophy of moral psychology /
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| Author / Creator: | Scott, G. E., 1931- |
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| Imprint: | Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c1990. |
| Description: | xvi, 202 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | SUNY series in ethical theory |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1062239 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Square One
- 1. Actual and Possible Human States, Beliefs, and Opinions
- 2. Relevant Concepts
- 3. Investigative Strategy
- 2. Material Persons
- 1. Material Objects: 'New-Type' Materialism
- 2. Intentionality as a Feature of Material Objects
- Intentional Systems: First Order
- The Intentional Circle
- Intentional Systems: Higher Order
- Intentional Causation, Intentional Explanation, Natural Kinds, and Anomalous Monism
- 3. Malleable Persons
- 1. Malleability
- 2. A Model for Malleability: the Computer
- Embodied Turing Machines: Hardware, Software, and Computer Science
- Insights from Computer Science
- 3. Malleability and Evolution: Intentional Selection
- 4. Moral theory
- 1. Intentionality and Our Ordinary Moral Language
- 2. Intentionality and Moral Theory
- 3. Moral Theory
- Moral Theory, Problems: Moral Invisibility and Moral Semantics
- Moral Theory, Solutions: Richard Boyd's Moral Realism and Homeostatic Consequentialism
- Moral Theory. Solutions: Intentional Moral Realism and Intentional Homeostatic Consequentialism
- 5. Moral Persons: I
- 1. Moral Persons: Theory
- How to Make a Person: a Person Schema
- How to Make a Moral Person: a Moral Person Schema
- 2. Moral Persons, Identity, and Moral Defects: Akrasia and Servility
- Moral Persons amd Identity
- Moral Persons and Servility
- Moral Persons and Akrasia
- 6. Moral Persons: II
- 1. Moral Persons and Possible Worlds
- 2. Moral Persons and Death
- 3. Moral Persons and Quality of Life
- 7. MORAL PERSONS, RIGHTS, AND LAW
- 1. Legal Rights and Moral Rights: Carl Wellman's Theory of Rights
- 2. Moral Persons and Privacy
- Some Existing Views on Privacy
- Moral Personhood and Privacy
- Appendix: Some Possible Connections between Law and Morality
- 8. Not Quite Back To Square One: Reconsiderations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index