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oapen-20.500.12657-300072024-03-25T09:51:38Z Consciousness and Moral Status Shepherd, Joshua moral status affect phenomenal consciousness systematic account non-humans conscious experience valence humans nature Emotion Hedonism Instrumental and intrinsic value thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy 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. 2018-05-22 23:55 2019-10-18 13:47:51 2020-04-01T12:42:22Z 2020-04-01T12:42:22Z 2018 book 650113 OCN: 1038392258 9781315396347 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30007 eng Routledge Focus on Philosophy application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 650113.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd 9781315396347 Wellcome Routledge 122 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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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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