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.)
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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



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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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