Moral Personhood

G. E. Scott is Professor of Philosophy at Warren Wilson College.

"The book is a clear and forceful integration of current thought in philosophy of mind and value theory and it develops the implications of this dominant way of thought in these areas for moral personhood. Furthermore, it develops the implications of this view of personhood for important moral questions before the society. It is beautifully written, richly documented, and cogently argued." — E. M. Adams, Kenan Professor of Philosophy, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• PrefaceAcknowledgments 1. SQUARE ONE 1. Actual and Possible Human States, Beliefs, and Opinions2. Relevant Concepts3. Investigative Strategy 2. MATERIAL PERSONS 1. Material Objects: 'New-Type' Materialism2. Intentionality as a Feature of Material ObjectsIntentional Systems: First OrderThe Intentional CircleIntentional Systems: Higher OrderIntentional Causation, Intentional Explanation, Natural Kinds, and Anomalous Monism 3. MALLEABLE PERSONS 1. Malleability2. A Model for Malleability: the ComputerEmbodied Turing Machines: Hardware, Software, and Computer ScienceInsights from Computer Science3. Malleability and Evolution: Intentional Selection 4. MORAL THEORY 1. Intentionality and Our Ordinary Moral Language2. Intentionality and Moral Theory3. Moral TheoryMoral Theory, Problems: Moral Invisibility and Moral SemanticsMoral Theory, Solutions: Richard Boyd's Moral Realism and Homeostatic ConsequentialismMoral Theory. Solutions: Intentional Moral Realism and Intentional Homeostatic Consequentialism 5. MORAL PERSONS: I 1. Moral Persons: TheoryHow to Make a Person: a Person SchemaHow to Make a Moral Person: a Moral Person Schema2. Moral Persons, Identity, and Moral Defects: Akrasia and ServilityMoral Persons amd IdentityMoral Persons and ServilityMoral Persons and Akrasia 6. MORAL PERSONS: II 1. Moral Persons and Possible Worlds2. Moral Persons and Death3. Moral Persons and Quality of Life 7. MORAL PERSONS, RIGHTS, AND LAW 1. Legal Rights and Moral Rights: Carl Wellman's Theory of Rights2. Moral Persons and PrivacySome Existing Views on PrivacyMoral Personhood and PrivacyAppendix: Some Possible Connections between Law and Morality 8. NOT QUITE BACK TO SQUARE ONE: RECONSIDERATIONS NotesBibliographyIndex