Personhood
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
- What is it to be a person?
- Could animals or machines be considered persons?
- Is being morally responsible the defining feature of being human?
Key Concepts:
Key Concepts:
- Consciousness
- Self-consciousness
- Agency
- Morality and moral responsibility
- (Existential) Responsibility and authenticity
Key Terms:
Key Terms:
- Consciousness
- Self-consciousness
- Sufficient condition
- Necessary condition
- Mutually exclusive
- Wakefulness
- Awareness
- Responsiveness
- Agency
- Morality
- Moral responsibility
- Authenticity
- Responsibility (existential)
- Facticity
- Anthropocentrism
- Sentience
- Utilitarianism (Bentham)
- Preference utilitarianism (Singer)
- Strong AI
- Weak AI
- Functionalism
Links:
Links:
- Personhood (Crash Course video)
- Artificial intelligence and personhood (Crash Course video)
- Non-human animals (Crash Course video)
- Peter Singer on personhood (YouTube)
- AI Ethics: Should we grant them moral and legal personhood? (Big Think video)
- Abortion and personhood (Big Think video)
- Nonhuman rights project aims to grant personhood to animals (Steven Wise, Youtube)
Documents:
Documents:
- Consciousness (in animals and machines)
- "What is it like to be a bat?" (Thomas Nagel, 1974)
