Abstract A relatively recent form of animal activism is lawsuits intended to declare some animals as legal persons. pioneer this approach the U.S.-based Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP). This organization’s primary strategy has been invoke writ habeas corpus, which protects right personal freedom “persons.” The article criticizes notion personhood that NhRP employing and explains how an alternati...

Humans are animals; humans are machines. The current academic and popular dialogue on extending the personhood boundary to certain non-human animal species and at the same time to machines/robots reflects a dialectic about how “being human” is defined, about how we perceive our species and ourselves in relation to the environment. While both paths have the potential to improve lives, these impr...

ed, and conceptualized” (Garner “‘Still Living Flesh’: Beckett, MerleauPonty, and the Phenomenological Body” 448). 2. Kuhn’s influential book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), specifies that landmark scientific advancements such as Newton’s Principia should be understood as paradigms because “[t]heir achievement was sufficiently unprecedented to attract an enduring group of adher...

This essay analyzes how the Modularity of Mind impacts the anthrozoological argument that non-human animals are persons. Comparative research on human and animal minds suggests that human and other-than-human minds differ in their mental architecture such that animal cognition is largely modular whereas human thought fluidly integrates contents across modules. If animal minds are modular, then ...

1 The intentional stance and intentional systems In Brainstorms Dennett (1981) proposes the following six conditions, each of which is necessary, of`personhood'. Although Dennett is concerned with`moral personhood', rather than personhood as such, he believes that metaphysical personhood is a necessary condition of moral personhood. The six conditions are: rationality, intentionality, stance, r...

The European Parliament has proposed legal personhood for artificial intelligence entities, to ensure honouring of rights and responsibility. article discusses the question non-human beings from a legal-historical legal-sociological perspective. In addition, it examines in modern German system implementation tertium genus as by Parliament. This analysis leads conclusion that introduction e-pers...