Consciousness and moral status / / by Joshua Shepherd.

• Superior document: Routledge focus on philosophy
• VerfasserIn: Shepherd, Joshua,
• Place / Publishing House: Boca Raton, FL : : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis,, [2018].; ©2019.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge focus on philosophy.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 111 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
• Other title: part I Preliminaries --; chapter 1 Introduction /; chapter 2 Preliminaries --; Consciousness /; chapter 3 Preliminaries --; Value /; chapter 4 Preliminaries --; Moral status /; part II An account of phenomenal value --; chapter 5 What it is like and beyond /; chapter 6 Evaluative phenomenal properties /; chapter 7 The importance of phenomenal character /; chapter 8 Contra Moore on an important point /; chapter 9 Hedonism about the value within consciousness /; chapter 10 The bearers of phenomenal value /; chapter 11 Thick experiences /; chapter 12 Meta-evaluative properties /; chapter 13 Evaluative spaces, part I /; chapter 14 Evaluative spaces, part II /; chapter 15 How far we have come /; part III Moral status and difficult cases --; chapter 16 Moral status --; Machines and post-persons /; chapter 17 Moral status --; The other animals /; chapter 18 Moral status --; Human cases /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 1315396335; 1315396343
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Joshua Shepherd.

It seems obvious that phenomenally conscious experience is something of great value, and that this value maps onto a range of important ethical issues. For example, claims about the value of life for those in Permanent Vegetative State (PVS); debates about treatment and study of disorders of consciousness; controversies about end-of-life care for those with advanced dementia; and arguments about the moral status of embryos, fetuses, and non-human animals arguably turn on the moral significance of various facts about consciousness. However, though work has been done on the moral significance of elements of consciousness, such as pain and pleasure, little explicit attention has been devoted to the ethical significance of consciousness.