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George Dvorskry - Personhood Beyond the Human

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Channel: Science, Technology & the Future · 2013 · Science & Technology

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== Mission Statement for Rights for Non-Human Persons -- Owing to advances in several fields, including the neurosciences, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the human species no longer can ignore the rights of non-human persons. A number of non-human animals, including the great apes, cetaceans (i.e. dolphins and whales), elephants, and parrots, exhibit characteristics and tendencies consistent with that of a person's traits like self-awareness, intentionality, creativity, symbolic communication, and many others. It is a moral and legal imperative that we now extend the protection of 'human rights' from our species to all beings with those characteristics. 
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http://nonhumanrights.net Personhood Beyond the Human - Dec 6-8 2013 Yale University New Haven CT

Also see interview with James Hughes on the conference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sV85PD2BNXo
IEET Rights for Non-Human Persons - http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/RNHP
The Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) is committed to the idea that some non-human animals meet the criteria of legal personhood and thus are deserving of specific rights and protections.

 
== Personhood Beyond the Human -- Yale University, December 6-8 2013 ==

A conference on "Personhood Beyond the Human" will be held at Yale University, December 6-8, 2013. The event will focus on personhood for nonhuman animals, including great apes, cetaceans, and elephants, and will explore the evolving notions of personhood by analyzing them through the frameworks of neuroscience, behavioral science, philosophy, ethics, and law.

The conference will be co-sponsored by the Nonhuman Rights Project and the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies in collaboration with the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.

Special consideration will be given to discussions of nonhuman animal personhood, both in terms of understanding the history, science, and philosophy behind personhood, and ways to protect animal interests through the establishment of legal precedents and by increasing public awareness.

By the close of the conference, attendees will have gained an enhanced understanding of the neurological, cognitive, and behavioral underpinnings of personhood and those traits required for such consideration; personhood theory; the history of personhood consideration and status (both in terms of philosophical and legal conceptions); and the legal hurdles and requirements for granting personhood status outside of the human species.

The Nonhuman Rights Project will be presenting our research from the past five years including research on the varying legal causes of action that the Nonhuman Rights Project will use to argue legal personhood for specific nonhuman animals.

Keynote Speakers, Peter Singer & Steven M. Wise (President of the Nonhuman Rights Project).



http://hplusmagazine.com/2013/04/12/personhood-beyond-the-human-yale-university-yale-university-december-6-8-2013/

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