Personhood

Author : Thalia Field
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780811229746

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Personhood by Thalia Field Pdf

A remarkable and moving cross-genre work about animal rights by one of America’s foremost experimental writers Whether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the "invasive species crisis," Personhood reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection, Bird Lovers, Backyard, Thalia Field's essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals, and other historical actors, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status.

Author : Leo F. Buscaglia
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986-04-12
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780449901991

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Personhood by Leo F. Buscaglia Pdf

In his warm, inviting, and inclusive, style, bestselling author Leo Buscaglia manages to bring a vision of the world together within his warm embrace. Sharing the stories of his travels and his encounters with people all over the world, Buscaglia reminds us that we are all people who have the potential to share ourselves with ourselves as well as others. A lover of life and people, Buscaglia's insight into our hearts and souls, his reassurance as to our essential good natures, is a much-needed reminder of our connectedness to one and all.

Author : Jack Martin,Mark H. Bickhard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107018082

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The Psychology of Personhood by Jack Martin,Mark H. Bickhard Pdf

A new examination of the psychology of personhood, which views persons as irreducibly embodied and socially situated beings.

Author : Joseph Dumit
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780691236629

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Picturing Personhood by Joseph Dumit Pdf

By showing us the human brain at work, PET (positron emission tomography) scans are subtly--and sometimes not so subtly--transforming how we think about our minds. Picturing Personhood follows this remarkable and expensive technology from the laboratory into the world and back. It examines how PET scans are created and how they are being called on to answer myriad questions with far-reaching implications: Is depression an observable brain disease? Are criminals insane? Do men and women think differently? Is rationality a function of the brain? Based on interviews, media analysis, and participant observation at research labs and conferences, Joseph Dumit analyzes how assumptions designed into and read out of the experimental process reinforce specific notions about human nature. Such assumptions can enter the process at any turn, from selecting subjects and mathematical models to deciding which images to publish and how to color them. Once they leave the laboratory, PET scans shape social debates, influence courtroom outcomes, and have positive and negative consequences for people suffering mental illness. Dumit follows this complex story, demonstrating how brain scans, as scientific objects, contribute to our increasing social dependence on scientific authority. The first book to examine the cultural ramifications of brain-imaging technology, Picturing Personhood is an unprecedented study that will influence both cultural studies and the growing field of science and technology studies.

Author : Laurance J. Splitter
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789812874818

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Identity and Personhood by Laurance J. Splitter Pdf

This book approaches the concept of identity from both logical-linguistic and socio-cultural perspectives, and explores its implications for our understanding of who or what we persons really are. In the process, it bridges disciplines that often remain disconnected - most notably analytic philosophy and the social sciences - and offers a novel critique of citizenship and moral education, "identity politics", and other contemporary domains of inquiry. Although the book has a multi-disciplinary focus, it is philosophical in its overall orientation (but accessible to readers from outside philosophy) and educational in its mission (but of interest to readers who are not formally educators). Chapters 2-5 discuss the philosophical and (where appropriate) scientific dimensions of identity, chapters 6-7 explore its socio-cultural dimensions and chapter 8 examines its educational dimensions and implications. The book will be of particular interest to those researching or teaching civics, citizenship education and moral education, as well as those involved in cultural, political and religious studies in a broader sense. It will also appeal to anyone who finds him- or herself wondering about the state of the world in the Twenty-First Century, and who suspects that rethinking what it means to be a person in that world might not be a bad idea.

Author : G. E. Scott
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791403211

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Moral Personhood by G. E. Scott Pdf

This book presents a theory of personhood and moral personhood using results from recent work on intentionality in the philosophy of mind. An account of intentional kinds, causation, and explanation is provided to resolve some current issues in moral and legal theory, and to examine questions raised in law and medicine where it is necessary to deal with human individuals at the boundaries of their lives. Topics discussed include abortion, death, euthanasia, personal identity, rights -- including the right to privacy and the right to die -- servility, and suicide.

Author : Pollman, Elizabeth,Thompson, Robert B.
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789902914

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Research Handbook on Corporate Purpose and Personhood by Pollman, Elizabeth,Thompson, Robert B. Pdf

This insightful Research Handbook contributes to the theoretical and practical understanding of corporate purpose and personhood, which has become the central debate of corporate law. It provides cutting-edge thoughts on the role of corporations in society and the nature of their rights and responsibilities.

Author : Robert J. Sharpe,Patricia I. McMahon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781487516932

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The Persons Case by Robert J. Sharpe,Patricia I. McMahon Pdf

On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, England's reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canada's Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women from Canada's upper house and the idea that the meaning of the constitution could not change with time. The Persons Case considers the case in its political and social context and examines the lives of the key players: Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, and the other members of the "famous five," the politicians who opposed the appointment of women, the lawyers who argued the case, and the judges who decided it. Robert J. Sharpe and Patricia I. McMahon examine the Persons case as a pivotal moment in the struggle for women's rights and as one of the most important constitutional decisions in Canadian history. Lord Sankey's decision overruled the Supreme Court of Canada's judgment that the courts could not depart from the original intent of the framers of Canada's constitution in 1867. Describing the constitution as a "living tree," the decision led to a reassessment of the nature of the constitution itself. After the Persons case, it could no longer be viewed as fixed and unalterable, but had to be treated as a document that, in the words of Sankey, was in "a continuous process of evolution." The Persons Case is a comprehensive study of this important event, examining the case itself, the ruling of the Privy Council, and the profound affect that it had on women's rights and the constitutional history of Canada.

Author : Christie McDonald,Gary Wihl
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780271040202

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Transformations in Personhood and Culture After Theory by Christie McDonald,Gary Wihl Pdf

Author : Charles Foster,Jonathan Herring
Publisher : Springer
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319534596

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Identity, Personhood and the Law by Charles Foster,Jonathan Herring Pdf

This book is an examination of how the law understands human identity and the whole notion of ‘human being’. On these two notions the law, usually unconsciously, builds the superstructure of ‘human rights’. It explores how the law understands the concept of a human being, and hence a person who is entitled to human rights. This involves a discussion of the legal treatment of those of so-called "marginal personhood" (e.g. high functioning non-human animals; humans of limited intellectual capacity, and fetuses). It also considers how we understand our identity as people, and hence how we fall into different legal categories: such as gender, religion and so on.The law makes a number of huge assumptions about some fundamental issues of human identity and authenticity – for instance that we can talk meaningfully about the entity that we call ‘our self’. Until now it has rarely, if ever, identified those assumptions, let alone interrogated them. This failure has led to the law being philosophically dubious and sometimes demonstrably unfit for purpose. Its failure is increasingly hard to cover up. What should happen legally, for instance, when a disease such as dementia eliminates or radically transforms all the characteristics that most people regard as foundational to the ‘self’? This book seeks to plug these gaps in the literature.

Author : Susanna Kim Ripken
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108416528

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Corporate Personhood by Susanna Kim Ripken Pdf

Explores the nature of corporate personhood and how it affects the rights, powers, and influence of corporations in society.

Author : Marc de Leeuw,Sonja van Wichelen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030278489

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Personhood in the Age of Biolegality by Marc de Leeuw,Sonja van Wichelen Pdf

This volume showcases emerging interdisciplinary scholarship that captures the complex ways in which biological knowledge is testing the nature and structure of legal personhood. Key questions include: What do the new biosciences do to our social, cultural, and legal conceptions of personhood? How does our legal apparatus incorporate new legitimations from the emerging biosciences into its knowledge system? And what kind of ethical, socio-political, and scientific consequences are attached to the establishment of such new legalities? The book examines these problems by looking at materialities, the posthuman, and the relational in the (un)making of legalities. Themes and topics include postgenomic research, gene editing, neuroscience, epigenetics, precision medicine, regenerative medicine, reproductive technologies, border technologies, and theoretical debates in legal theory on the relationship between persons, property, and rights.

Author : Richard Eldridge
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1989-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0226203166

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On Moral Personhood by Richard Eldridge Pdf

In this remarkable blend of sophisticated philosophical analysis and close reading of literary texts, Richard Eldridge presents a convincing argument that literature is the most important and richest source of insights in favor of a historicized Kantian moral philosophy. He effectively demonstrates that only through the interpretation of narratives can we test our capacities as persons for acknowledging the moral laws as a formula of value and for acting according to it. Eldridge presents an extensive new interpretation of Kantian ethics that is deeply informed by Kant's aesthetics. He defends a revised version of Kantian universalism and a Kantian conception of the content of morality. Eldridge then turns to literature armed not with any a priori theory but with an interpretive stance inspired by Hegel's phenomenology of self-understanding, more or less naturalized, and by Wittgenstein's work on self-understanding as ongoing narrative-interpretive activity, a stance that yields Kantian results about the universal demands our nature places on itself. Eldridge goes on to present readings of novels by Conrad and Austen and poetry by Wordsworth and Coleridge. In each text protagonists are seen to be struggling with moral conflicts and for self-understanding as moral persons. The route toward partial resolution of their conflicts is seen to involve multiple and ongoing activities of reading and interpreting. The result of this kind of interpretation is that such literature—literature that portrays protagonists as themselves readers and interpreters of human capacities for morality—is a primary source for the development of morally significant self-understanding. We see in the careers of these protagonists that there can be genuine and fruitful moral deliberation and valuable action, while also seeing how situated and partial any understanding and achievement of value must remain. On Moral Personhood at once delineates the moral nature of persons; shows various conditions of the ongoing, contextualized, partial acknowledgment of that nature and of the exercise of the capacities that define it; and enacts an important way of reading literature in relation to moral problems. Eldridge's work will be important reading for moral philosophers (especially those concerned with Kant, Hegel, and issues dividing moral particularists from moral universalists), literary theorists (especially those concerned with the value of literature and its relation to philosophy and to moral problems), and readers and critics of Conrad, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Austen.

Author : Tomasz Pietrzykowski
Publisher : Springer
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783319788814

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Personhood Beyond Humanism by Tomasz Pietrzykowski Pdf

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents. It reveals the humanistic assumptions underlying the legal approach to personhood and examines the extent to which they are undermined by current and imminent scientific and technological advances. Further, the book outlines an original conception of non-personal subjecthood so as to provide adequate normative solutions for the problematic status of sentient animals and other kinds of entities. Arguably, non-personal subjects of law should be regarded as holding one right, and only one right - the right to be taken into account.

Author : Gary E. Varner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780199758784

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Personhood, Ethics, and Animal Cognition by Gary E. Varner Pdf

The book also draws heavily on empirical research on consciousness and cognition in non-human animals as a way of approaching the question of which animals, if any, are "persons," or at least "near-persons".