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Interrogating personhood and dementia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Objectives: To interrogate the concept of personhood and its application to care practices for people with dementia. Method: We outline the work of Tom Kitwood on personhood and relate this to conceptualisations of personhood in metaphysics and in moral
Gilleard, C, Higgs, P
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Personhood, consciousness, and god : how to be a proper pantheist [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
© Springer Nature B.V. 2018In this paper I develop a theory of personhood which leaves open the possibility of construing the universe as a person. If successful, it removes one bar to endorsing pantheism.
BF Dainton   +37 more
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Groups with Minds of Their Own Making [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
According Philip Pettit, suitably organised groups not only possess ‘minds of their own’ but can also ‘make up their minds’ and 'speak for themselves'--where these two capacities enable them to perform as conversable subjects or 'persons'.
Townsend, Leo
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Gradient Legal Personhood for AI Systems—Painting Continental Legal Shapes Made to Fit Analytical Molds

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
What I propose in the present article are some theoretical adjustments for a more coherent answer to the legal “status question” of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.
Diana Mădălina Mocanu
doaj   +1 more source

Fracturing the Historical Continuity on Truth: Jotiba Phule in the Quest for Personhood of Shudras

open access: yesCaste, 2021
Anti-caste traditions in India work to understand and examine the idea of personhood which the majority in India is deprived of by virtue of being born in the lower rungs of the caste hierarchy. This paper examines the historical continuity in Brahminism
Snehashish Das
doaj   +1 more source

Beyond Dualism(s): A New Approach to Legal Personhood in Contemporary Legal Theory

open access: yesActa Universitatis Carolinae Iuridica
This article presents a critique of the Orthodox View of legal personhood, which traditionally aligns personhood with the capacity to hold rights and duties.
Zsófia Folková
doaj   +1 more source

Personhood is Both Sui Generis and Interpersonally Co-constituted: A Schelerian Conundrum, and Ecumenical Teaching on Christ’s Condescension

open access: yesConspectus
Twentieth-century phenomenologist Max Scheler makes two observations about human personhood that appear to contradict each other. Namely, that personhood is both sui generis and interpersonally co-constituted.
Marno Kirstein
doaj   +1 more source

Personhood and Partialism in African Philosophy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article ascertains what philosophical implications can be drawn from the moral idea of personhood dominant in African philosophy. This article aims to go beyond the oft-made submission that this moral idea of personhood is definitive of African ...
Motsamai, Molefe
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Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
In December 2013, the Nonhuman Rights Project (NhRP) filed a petition for a common law writ of habeas corpus in the New York State Supreme Court on behalf of Tommy, a chimpanzee living alone in a cage in a shed in rural New York (Barlow, 2017).
Andrews, Kristin   +12 more
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Preferences of Pediatric Patients and Their Caregivers for Chemotherapy‐Induced Nausea and Vomiting Control Endpoints: A Mixed Methods Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Although not always achieved, complete chemotherapy‐induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) control is the conventional goal of CINV prophylaxis. In this two‐center, mixed‐methods study, we sought to understand the preferences of adolescent patients and family caregivers for CINV control endpoints.
Haley Newman   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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