creators_name: Carruthers, Peter
editors_name: D'Agostino, Fred
type: journale
datestamp: 2001-01-11
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:28
metadata_visibility: show
title: Sympathy and subjectivity
ispublished: pub
subjects: phil-ethics
subjects: phil-mind
full_text_status: public
keywords: sympathy, subjectivity, animals, consciousness
abstract: This paper shows that even if the mental states of non-human animals lack phenomenological properties, as some accounts of mental-state consciousness imply, 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, or thwarted desire, rather than in anything phenomenological. 
date: 1999
date_type: published
publication: Australasian Journal of Philosophy
volume: 77
number: 4
publisher: Oxford University Press
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Carruthers, Peter  (1999) Sympathy and subjectivity.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1204/1/Sympathy.htm