Citation
Jürgens, Uta M. (2016) Universal modes of awareness? A “pre-reflective” premise. Animal Sentience 10(6)
Commentary Type
Open Commentary
Thread
Mark Rowlands, Are animals persons?
Abstract
Mark Rowlands holds that creatures endowed with pre-reflective awareness may qualify as persons: In pre-reflective awareness, the self and the unity of mental life are implicit in the stream of experience. Rowlands generalizes from an introspective analysis of pre-reflective consciousness in humans to pre-reflective awareness in general. I describe three examples of empirical findings that corroborate the assumption that animal minds have some of the same basic modes of pre-reflective awareness as human minds.
DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1129
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