Personhood Beyond Humanism - Animals, Chimeras, Autonomous Agents and the Law

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents. It reveals the humanistic assumptions underlying the legal approach to personhood and examines the extent to which they are undermined by current and imminent scientific and technological advances. Further, the book outlines an original conception of non-personal subjecthood so as to provide adequate normative solutions for the problematic status of sentient animals and other kinds of entities. Arguably, non-personal subjects of law should be regarded as holding one right, and only one right  - the right to be taken into account.

List of contents

Introduction.- What is Legal Personhood?.- On Juridical Humanism: The Anthropocentrism of the Legal Approach to Personhood and its Philosophical Assumptions.- The Decline of Juridical Humanism.- Neminem Laedere: Looking for a Way Out.

Summary

This book explores the legal conception of personhood in the context of contemporary challenges, such as the status of non-human animals, human-animal biological mixtures, cyborgisation of the human body, or developing technologies based on artificial autonomic agents. It reveals the humanistic assumptions underlying the legal approach to personhood and examines the extent to which they are undermined by current and imminent scientific and technological advances. Further, the book outlines an original conception of non-personal subjecthood so as to provide adequate normative solutions for the problematic status of sentient animals and other kinds of entities. Arguably, non-personal subjects of law should be regarded as holding one right, and only one right  - the right to be taken into account.

Product details

• Authors: Tomasz Pietrzykowski
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Original title: Ludzkie, niezbyt ludzkie. Esej o podmiotowosci prawnej o wyzwaniach XXI wieku.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319788807
• ISBN: 978-3-31-978880-7
• No. of pages: 115
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 7 mm
• Weight: 201 g
• Illustrations: VI, 115 p. 1 illus.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Law; SpringerBriefs in Law
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; C, Ethics, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, Law, Political Science, Ethics & moral philosophy, Law and Criminology, Law—Philosophy, Methods, theory & philosophy of law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Philosophy of Law, Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics