?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Sympathy+and+subjectivity&rft.creator=Carruthers%2C+Peter&rft.subject=Ethics&rft.subject=Philosophy+of+Mind&rft.description=This+paper+shows+that+even+if+the+mental+states+of+non-human+animals+lack+phenomenological+properties%2C+as+some+accounts+of+mental-state+consciousness+imply%2C+this+need+not+prevent+those+states+from+being+appropriate+objects+of+sympathy+and+moral+concern.+The+paper+argues+that+the+most+basic+form+of+mental+(as+opposed+to+biological)+harm+lies+in+the+existence+of+thwarted+agency%2C+or+thwarted+desire%2C+rather+than+in+anything+phenomenological.+&rft.publisher=Oxford+University+Press&rft.contributor=D'Agostino%2C+Fred&rft.date=1999&rft.type=Journal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1204%2F1%2FSympathy.htm&rft.identifier=++Carruthers%2C+Peter++(1999)+Sympathy+and+subjectivity.++%5BJournal+(On-line%2FUnpaginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F1204%2F