Citation
Howe, Alex (2016) “HOT” so fast. Animal Sentience 10(15)
Commentary Type
Open Commentary
Thread
Mark Rowlands, Are animals persons?
Abstract
Mark Rowlands’s target article offers a lucid, systematic treatment of a notion of personhood that has had significant influence in philosophy. The orthodox interpretation of this notion of personhood has been that it requires cognitive capacities not possessed by animals. Rowlands disputes this. However, I think his objections to the orthodox, higher-order thought (HOT) theories of mental unity may be too quick. In this commentary, I show two separable places where Rowlands’s objection to HOT theories of mental unity falls short.
DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1170
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