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Psychopathy, autism, and basic moral emotions: Evidence for sentimentalist constructivism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Philosophers and psychologists often claim that moral agency is connected with the ability to feel, understand, and deploy moral emotions. In this chapter, I investigate the nature of these emotions and their connection with moral agency.
Ramirez, Erick
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Doing without Deliberation: Automatism, Automaticity, and Moral Accountability, [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
Actions performed in a state of automatism are not subject to moral evaluation, while automatic actions often are. Is the asymmetry between automatistic and automatic agency justified?
Bayne, Tim, Levy, Neil
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Are Some Animals Also Moral Agents? [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Moral agency without responsibility? Analysis of three ethical models of human-computer interaction in times of artificial intelligence (AI)

open access: yes, 2020
Philosophical and sociological approaches in technology have increasingly shifted toward describing AI (artificial intelligence) systems as ‘(moral) agents,’ while also attributing ‘agency’ to them.
Alexis Fritz   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preserving a combat commander’s moral agency: The Vincennes Incident as a Chinese Room [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Collective Agency: Moral and Amoral [PDF]

open access: yesDialectica, 2018
Proponents of corporate moral responsibility have provided a number of accounts of moral collective agency. But these accounts do not shed light on how a collective agent might fail to be a moral agent. I explain the difference between moral and amoral collective agents in terms of the notion of a normative perspective.
openaire   +2 more sources

Moral agency and spirituality in palliative care.

open access: yesAnnals of Palliative Medicine, 2020
Moral agency is a prerequisite for a full autonomous decision, meaning that the agents have the intrinsic capacity to understand their actions and to be accountable for the consequences of these actions.
Francisca Rego, G. Rêgo, R. Nunes
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Practice‐Focused Case for Animal Moral Agency

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, 2020
Considerations of nonhuman animal moral agency typically base their reasoning and (very often negative ) verdict on a capacity-focused approach to moral agency.
D. Behdadi
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Can you count on a calculator? The role of agency and affect in judgments of robots as moral agents

open access: yesHum. Comput. Interact., 2022
Robots are becoming an integral part of society, and might soon take on roles involving making morally relevant decisions. In a pre-registered experiment (n = 184), we investigated which factors modulate the extent to which we trust a robot to make a ...
Sari R. R. Nijssen   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

"This Chatbot Would Never...": Perceived Moral Agency of Mental Health Chatbots

open access: yesProc. ACM Hum. Comput. Interact.
Despite repeated reports of socially inappropriate and dangerous chatbot behaviour, chatbots are increasingly used as mental health services in providing support for young people.
Joel Wester   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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