When Is a Person?
Pre-Persons
& Former Persons
Below
you will find the table of contents for this book in its 2009 edition.
An earlier
edition was published on
the Internet in 2001.
(This is the complete book as it was in 2001.)
The links below lead you
to
several pages from the 2009 edition.
COPYRIGHT
PAGE
I. INTRODUCTION
..................................................................2
A. When
Does a
Child Become an Adult? ..................................4
II. CONSCIOUSNESS
..............................................................10
A. The
Wink Test
for Infant Self-Consciousness ........................11
B. Computers Are Not Persons
............................................15
C. What about a Sleeping
Person? ........................................16
D. Common-Sense Definitions
of Consciousness ........................17
QUESTIONS
FOR
PROXIES
ABOUT
CONSCIOUSNESS AND SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS
................18
III. MEMORY
........................................................................21
A. Memory in the Life-Cycle:
The Dawning and Darkening of Memory
......................23
B. If I Lose My Memory, I
Will Be Former Person .......................26
QUESTIONS
FOR
PROXIES ABOUT MEMORY
....................................31
IV. LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION
.........................................32
A. Language Development in
Children ...................................33
B. Animals Lack Full and
True Language ................................35
C. Computers Do Not
Understand Metaphors ...........................38
D. The Sudden Loss of
Language—as by a Stroke .......................39
E. The Gradual Loss of
Language—as in Alzheimer’s Disease .........43
QUESTIONS
FOR
PROXIES
ABOUT
LANGUAGE
AND COMMUNICATION
............................46
V. AUTONOMY
.....................................................................49
A. The Emergence of Autonomy
in Children ............................50
B. Autonomy Includes a
Meaningful Sense of Time .....................50
C. As Adult Persons We
Invent Our Own Goals
and Develop Moral Capacity
....................................51
D. Children Cannot Be
Trusted to Handle Money .......................51
E. Some Retarded Individuals
Never Become
Responsible, Autonomous Adults
..............................52
F. If I Enter a Second
Childhood,
I Will Lose My Ability to Handle My Own Affairs
.............53
G. If I Lose My Purpose for Living
.........................................55
QUESTIONS
FOR
PROXIES ABOUT AUTONOMY ................................56
VI. PRE-PERSONS
.................................................................62
APPENDIX: SIMILAR
ATTEMPTS TO DESCRIBE PERSONHOOD ................64
Contents
WHEN IS A
PERSON?
by James Park 1
<>BIBLIOGRAPHIC DETAILS:
AUTHOR: James Leonard Park
TITLE: When Is a Person?
SUBTITLE: Pre-Persons & Former Persons
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER: BD450.P37 2009
NUMBER OF PAGES: 68
SIZE: 8-1/2 inches wide X 11 inches high
X 3/16
inch thick.
PUBLISHER: Existential Books
PUBLICATION DATE: January 20, 2009
BINDING:
stapled paperback inside clear plastic covers
ISBN: 978-0-89231-810-0
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