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Human and Animal Minds: The Consciousness Questions Laid to Rest
The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to...
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The continuities between human and animal minds are increasingly well understood. This has led many people to make claims about consciousness in animals, which has often been taken to be crucial for their moral standing. Peter Carruthers argues compellingly that there is no fact of the matter
to be discovered, and that the question of animal consciousness is of no scientific or ethical significance. Carruthers offers solutions to two related puzzles. The first is about the place of phenomenal--or felt--consciousness in the natural order. Consciousness is shown to comprise fine-grained nonconceptual contents that are globally broadcast to a wide range of cognitive systems for reasoning,
decision-making, and verbal report. Moreover, the so-called hard problem of consciousness results merely from the distinctive first-person concepts we can use when thinking about such contents. No special non-physical properties--no so-called qualia--are involved. The second puzzle concerns the
distribution of phenomenal consciousness across the animal kingdom. Carruthers shows that there is actually no fact of the matter, because thoughts about consciousness in other creatures require us to project our first-person concepts into their minds; but such projections fail to result in
determinate truth-conditions when those minds are significantly unlike our own. This upshot, however, doesn't matter. It doesn't matter for science, because no additional property enters the world as one transitions from creatures that are definitely incapable of phenomenal consciousness to those
that definitely are (namely, ourselves). And on many views it doesn't matter for ethics, either, since concern for animals can be grounded in sympathy, which requires only third-person understanding of the desires and emotions of the animals in question, rather than in first-person empathy.
Author: Peter Carruthers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/25/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.40w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780192859327
to be discovered, and that the question of animal consciousness is of no scientific or ethical significance. Carruthers offers solutions to two related puzzles. The first is about the place of phenomenal--or felt--consciousness in the natural order. Consciousness is shown to comprise fine-grained nonconceptual contents that are globally broadcast to a wide range of cognitive systems for reasoning,
decision-making, and verbal report. Moreover, the so-called hard problem of consciousness results merely from the distinctive first-person concepts we can use when thinking about such contents. No special non-physical properties--no so-called qualia--are involved. The second puzzle concerns the
distribution of phenomenal consciousness across the animal kingdom. Carruthers shows that there is actually no fact of the matter, because thoughts about consciousness in other creatures require us to project our first-person concepts into their minds; but such projections fail to result in
determinate truth-conditions when those minds are significantly unlike our own. This upshot, however, doesn't matter. It doesn't matter for science, because no additional property enters the world as one transitions from creatures that are definitely incapable of phenomenal consciousness to those
that definitely are (namely, ourselves). And on many views it doesn't matter for ethics, either, since concern for animals can be grounded in sympathy, which requires only third-person understanding of the desires and emotions of the animals in question, rather than in first-person empathy.
Author: Peter Carruthers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 02/25/2022
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.78h x 5.40w x 0.51d
ISBN: 9780192859327
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