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The performativity of personhood [PDF]
Monash Bioethics Review, 2012 In debates on infanticide, including the recent defence of so-called ‘after-birth abortion’, philosophers generally treat the term ‘the person’ as descriptive, such that statements claiming that something is a person (or not) can be considered true or false, depending on the characteristics of that thing. This obscures important aspects of its usage. J
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Groups as Persons? A Suggestion for a Hegelian Turn
Journal of Social Ontology, 2017 Christian List and Philip Pettit have recently argued for a performative theory of personhood in which all agents who manage to perform in the space of obligations are taken as persons. Based on this account they claim that group agents are also persons.
Hirvonen Onni
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Abortion and Infanticide: a Radical Libertarian Defence [PDF]
, 2021 1. First there is an outline of the libertarian approach taken here. 2. On the assumption of personhood, it is explained how there need be no overall inflicted harm and no proactive killing with abortion and infanticide.
Lester, J. C.
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Deconstruction of the legal personhood of artificial intelligence
Цифровое право, 2021 Calls to rethink the content of “legal personhood” are increasingly being heard at the present time: to recognize animals, artificial intelligence, etc. as a subject.
S. K. Stepanov
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Persons and Sovereigns in Ethical Thought
Genealogy, 2017 Contemporary concepts of moral personhood prevent us from grappling effectively with contemporary social, political, and moral problems. One way to counter the power of such concepts is to trace their lineage and shifting political investments.
Ladelle McWhorter
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HRB Open Research, 2018 Background: Personhood in dementia is concerned with treating people living with dementia with dignity and respect, in a manner that supports their sense of self.
Niamh Hennelly +3 more
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Implications of a technoscientific culture on personhood in Africa and in the West
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2005 This paper endeavours to converge on present-day experiences of self. This is done against the backdrop of the interdependence between person (organism) and environment (physical and cultural). The rich history of development of personhood in the West is
Cornel du Toit
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Complementary Personhood and Gender: An Interrogation WithinAfrican Philosophy
Arụmarụka, 2023 In this paper, I argue for an Afro-communitarian account of personhood that considers the value of complementarity as a necessary part of human existence.
Diana Ekor OFANA
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Relational Social Theories and Legal Pluralism
The Indonesian Journal of Socio-Legal Studies, 2021 Recent sociological, anthropological, and psychological research points at a shared problem: Are humans separate and autonomous entities, or must they be seen through the lens of extended, permeable, fractured notions of personhood?
Keebet von Benda-Beckman
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Personhood and Rights in an African Tradition [PDF]
, 2017 It is generally accepted that the normative idea of personhood is central to African moral thought, but what has not been done in the literature is to explicate its relationship to the Western idea of rights.
Motsamai, Molefe
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