Preface
Acknowledgments
1. SQUARE ONE
1. Actual and Possible Human States, Beliefs, and Opinions
2. Relevant Concepts
3. Investigative Strategy
2. MATERIAL PERSONS
1. Material Objects: 'New-Type' Materialism
2. Intentionality as a Feature of Material Objects
Intentional Systems: First Order
The Intentional Circle
Intentional Systems: Higher Order
Intentional Causation, Intentional Explanation, Natural Kinds, and Anomalous Monism
3. MALLEABLE PERSONS
1. Malleability
2. A Model for Malleability: the Computer
Embodied Turing Machines: Hardware, Software, and Computer Science
Insights from Computer Science
3. Malleability and Evolution: Intentional Selection
4. MORAL THEORY
1. Intentionality and Our Ordinary Moral Language
2. Intentionality and Moral Theory
3. Moral Theory
Moral Theory, Problems: Moral Invisibility and Moral Semantics
Moral Theory, Solutions: Richard Boyd's Moral Realism and Homeostatic Consequentialism
Moral Theory. Solutions: Intentional Moral Realism and Intentional Homeostatic Consequentialism
5. MORAL PERSONS: I
1. Moral Persons: Theory
How to Make a Person: a Person Schema
How to Make a Moral Person: a Moral Person Schema
2. Moral Persons, Identity, and Moral Defects: Akrasia and Servility
Moral Persons amd Identity
Moral Persons and Servility
Moral Persons and Akrasia
6. MORAL PERSONS: II
1. Moral Persons and Possible Worlds
2. Moral Persons and Death
3. Moral Persons and Quality of Life
7. MORAL PERSONS, RIGHTS, AND LAW
1. Legal Rights and Moral Rights: Carl Wellman's Theory of Rights
2. Moral Persons and Privacy
Some Existing Views on Privacy
Moral Personhood and Privacy
Appendix: Some Possible Connections between Law and Morality
8. NOT QUITE BACK TO SQUARE ONE: RECONSIDERATIONS
Notes
Bibliography
Index