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Beyond persons: extending the personal / subpersonal distinction to non-rational animals and artificial agents

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<22>Published in the premier journal for philosophy of biology, this paper is the first to demonstrate that cognitive systems must be understood both in terms of mechanical causes (as in neuroscience) and in terms of reasons (as in folk psychology). This is true even for simple simulated agents. The work led to Spanish MEC funding ("Dispositions, holism and agency" project, ref. FFI2010-19455/FISO) for collaborative work with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Granada. The paper was also central to an international workshop ("Systematicity and the Post-Connectionist Era", San Jose, Spain, May 2011) with participants from 8 countries.