TY - GEN ID - cogprints1204 UR - http://cogprints.org/1204/ A1 - Carruthers, Peter Y1 - 1999/// N2 - 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. PB - Oxford University Press KW - sympathy KW - subjectivity KW - animals KW - consciousness TI - Sympathy and subjectivity AV - public ER -