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Consciousness and Moral Status (Hardcover)
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Consciousness and Moral Status (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Focus on Philosophy
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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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