Personhood

History

Slaves

Women

Animals

Children

Ethnicity

Importance

Rights

Duties

Responsibility

Agency

Authentic life

Definition and criteria

Consciousness

Self-consciousness

It develops; we are not born with it
Evolution, different species in different stages, different levels

Language as a requirement for self-identification

Wakefulness

Awareness

Responsiveness

Instincts

Descartes; soul and consciousness are the same

Potential consciousness

Necessary and sufficient properties

Who or what is a person?

Non-human animals

Machines

Versions of humans

Fetuses

Children

Mentally ill

Babies

Clones

Criminals

Anthropocentrism
and Speciesism

Morality

Moral responsibility