Why Tamagatchis Are Not Pets

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 13 (4):41-43 (1998)
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What makes "digital pets" pets? This article posits four necessary and jointly sufficient conditions for an individual to be a pet, concluding that digital pets fail to meet these sufficient criteria and thus are not pets.

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10.5840/thinking199814432

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