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Are Some Animals Also Moral Agents? [PDF]

, 2019
Animal rights philosophers have traditionally accepted the claim that human beings are unique, but rejected the claim that our uniqueness justifies denying animals moral rights.
Johannsen, Kyle
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Kant’s Moral Theory Meets Evolutionary Theory [PDF]

Journal of Philosophical Investigations
This paper delves into the intersection between Kant’s moral theory and evolutionary perspectives on personhood. It explores how Kant’s emphasis on rationality in moral agency aligns with evolutionary studies on the development of moral behaviors.
Alireza Mansouri
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Preserving a combat commander’s moral agency: The Vincennes Incident as a Chinese Room [PDF]

, 2016
We argue that a command and control system can undermine a commander’s moral agency if it causes him/her to process information in a purely syntactic manner, or if it precludes him/her from ascertaining the truth of that information. Our case is based on
Hew, Patrick Chisan
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The Meaning and Criteria of Moral Agency in Intelligent Machines [PDF]

Pizhūhish/hā-yi Falsafī- Kalāmī
The advancements in artificial intelligence (AI) and the emergence of intelligent and superintelligent machines have significantly blurred the traditional boundaries between humans and machines.
Seyyed Mohammad Hoseini Souraki
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Moral Intuition, Social Sin, and Moral Vision: Attending to the Unconscious Dimensions of Morality and Igniting the Moral Imagination

Religions, 2021
This paper argues that the unconscious dimensions of the moral life—for example, moral vision, moral imagination, and distorted consciousness—are some of the most urgent provinces of moral theology today.
Elizabeth Sweeny Block
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Virtual Moral Agency, Virtual Moral Responsibility. [PDF]

AI & society, 2009
Coeckelbergh, Mark
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Morally excused but socially excluded: Denying agency through the defense of mental impairment.

PLoS ONE, 2022
Defendants can deny they have agency, and thus responsibility, for a crime by using a defense of mental impairment. We argue that although this strategy may help defendants evade blame, it may carry longer-term social costs, as lay people's perceptions ...
Melissa de Vel-Palumbo, Rose Ferguson, Chelsea Schein, Melissa Xue-Ling Chang, Brock Bastian   +4 more
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Animals and Artificial Intelligence: Nonhumans as Moral Agents?

Studia Ecologiae et Bioethicae
There is a widely debated issue regarding the status and impact of exponentially growing artificial intelligence. The article deals with the problem of the moral agency of animals, and artificial intelligence.
Barbora Baďurová
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Why “Good” Followers Go “Bad”: The Power of Moral Disengagement

, 2014
Moral disengagement answers the question of why “good” followers (those with high personal standards) go “bad” (engage in unethical and illegal activities).
Johnson, Craig E
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The Problem of the First Belief: Group Agents and Responsibility

Journal of Social Ontology, 2020
Attributing moral responsibility to an agent requires that the agent is a capable member of a moral community. Capable members of a moral community are often thought of as moral reasoners (or moral persons) and, thus, to attribute moral responsibility to
Hirvonen Onni
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