Consciousness and Moral Status
It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of conscio...
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| description | It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments about the moral status of embryos, fetuses, and non-human animals arguably turn on the moral significance of various facts about consciousness. However, though work has been done on the moral significance of elements of consciousness, such as pain and pleasure, little explicit attention has been devoted to the ethical significance of consciousness. In this book Joshua Shepherd presents a systematic account of the value present within conscious experience. This account emphasizes not only the nature of consciousness, but also the importance of items within experience such as affect, valence, and the complex overall shape of particular valuable experiences. Shepherd also relates this account to difficult cases involving non-humans and humans with disorders of consciousness, arguing that the value of consciousness influences and partially explains the degree of moral status a being possesses, without fully determining it. The upshot is a deeper understanding of both the moral importance of phenomenal consciousness and its relations to moral status. This book will be of great interest to philosophers and students of ethics, bioethics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1595332025-05-16T06:07:00Z Consciousness and Moral Status Shepherd, Joshua Psycho Active Drugs Psycho Active Vice Versa Human Suffering British IPA Subject’s Mental Life Entity’s Experiences Subject’s Conscious Experiences Evaluative Space Phenomenal Character Phenomenal Consciousness Evaluative Experiences Thick Experience Experience Bears Phenomenal Properties Wo MCS Traumatic Brain Injury Agnostic Moral Status Violate Olfactory Higher Moral Status Specific Conscious States Full Moral Status thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments about the moral status of embryos, fetuses, and non-human animals arguably turn on the moral significance of various facts about consciousness. However, though work has been done on the moral significance of elements of consciousness, such as pain and pleasure, little explicit attention has been devoted to the ethical significance of consciousness. In this book Joshua Shepherd presents a systematic account of the value present within conscious experience. This account emphasizes not only the nature of consciousness, but also the importance of items within experience such as affect, valence, and the complex overall shape of particular valuable experiences. Shepherd also relates this account to difficult cases involving non-humans and humans with disorders of consciousness, arguing that the value of consciousness influences and partially explains the degree of moral status a being possesses, without fully determining it. The upshot is a deeper understanding of both the moral importance of phenomenal consciousness and its relations to moral status. This book will be of great interest to philosophers and students of ethics, bioethics, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of mind, and cognitive science. 2025-05-16T06:06:59Z 2025-05-16T06:06:59Z 2025-05-15T10:08:27Z 2018 book ONIX_20250515T115059_9781315396330_72 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101822 9781315396330 9781315396323 9781138221611 9780367734374 9781315396316 9781315396347 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/159533 eng Routledge Focus on Philosophy open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101822/1/9781315396330.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9781315396347 10.4324/9781315396347 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781315396330 9781315396323 9781138221611 9780367734374 9781315396316 9781315396347 Routledge 122 Oxford open access |
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| topic | Psycho Active Drugs Psycho Active Vice Versa Human Suffering British IPA Subject’s Mental Life Entity’s Experiences Subject’s Conscious Experiences Evaluative Space Phenomenal Character Phenomenal Consciousness Evaluative Experiences Thick Experience Experience Bears Phenomenal Properties Wo MCS Traumatic Brain Injury Agnostic Moral Status Violate Olfactory Higher Moral Status Specific Conscious States Full Moral Status thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTQ Ethics and moral philosophy thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTM Philosophy of mind thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JM Psychology |
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