Sentence examples for constructing personhood from inspiring English sources
Their aim is to provoke debate and stimulate reflection on these diverse ways of constructing personhood and entitlement.
"Developing a similar machine algorithm may lead to "ticklish" robots whose performance is enhanced by their capacity to distinguish touching from being touched, and, provocatively, may provide a computationally based construct of machine personhood".
"Both humans and animals would be best served by placing a strong emphasis on human responsibility for humane treatment of animals rather than creating an artificial construct of animal personhood".
Some process philosophers have taken the experience of dynamic sameness in self-experience as the basis for constructing a process-metaphysical account of personhood that defines the core self as a unified manifold of actions and capacities, tendencies, and dispositions to (physical or psychical) actions (see e.g. Rescher 1996 ch.6).
This recognized Islamic personhood is constructed locally through having a Muslim burial.
Islamic personhood, as constructed in these accounts, is thus conditional upon the saying of azān, which in turn depends on a child drawing breath.
After providing some details of the context and methodology of the research that informs this article, I then discuss how personhood at the beginning of life is constructed in the customary and religious understandings of my interviewees.
Corporate entities are a legal construct useful in business, but such corporations cannot be said to have any personhood as far as the rights this Constitution guarantees to human persons.
Kitwood reconceptualised personhood by not linking it exclusively to cognitive functioning but understood it as socially constructed in an interactional environment.
Once we determine the key condition of personhood — the condition Rovane calls "the ability to engage in agency-regarding relations" (Rovane 1998, 5) — we can then go on to construct a metaphysical theory of personal identity on top of this ethical concept.
