Personhood Beyond Humanism Animals, Chimeras, Autonomous Agents and the Law /

• Main Author: Pietrzykowski, Tomasz (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Law,
• Subjects: Law-Philosophy.; Law.; Political science.; Ethics.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.

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 assu...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• What is Legal Personhood?
• On Juridical Humanism: The Anthropocentrism of the Legal Approach to Personhood and its Philosophical Assumptions
• The Decline of Juridical Humanism
• Neminem Laedere: Looking for a Way Out.