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Hiding Behind Machines: When Blame Is Shifted to Artificial Agents [PDF]
arXiv, 2021 The transfer of tasks with sometimes far-reaching moral implications to autonomous systems raises a number of ethical questions. In addition to fundamental questions about the moral agency of these systems, behavioral issues arise. This article focuses on the responsibility of agents who decide on our behalf.
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The Problem of the First Belief: Group Agents and Responsibility
Journal of Social Ontology, 2022 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 ...
Onni Hirvonen
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A Theory of Social Agency for Human-Robot Interaction
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 Motivated by inconsistent, underspecified, or otherwise problematic theories and usages of social agency in the HRI literature, and leveraging philosophical work on moral agency, we present a theory of social agency wherein a social agent (a thing with ...
Ryan Blake Jackson, Tom Williams
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Children’s Moral Agency: An Interdisciplinary Scoping Review
Journal of Childhood Studies, 2018 Inconsistencies have been noted in how moral agency is conceived in childhood, leading to variations in children’s levels of inclusion/exclusion from discussions and decisions affecting them in children’s services and research.
M. Montreuil +3 more
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Autonomy, dignity and history in Caranti’s Kant’s political legacy [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2018 In this paper I discuss some relevant theses of Caranti’s Kant’s Political Legacy, whose aim is to provide a consistent account of how we could develop Kant’s political thought and see to what extent Kant’s insights can help us to critically ...
Filieri Luigi
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The Guilty (Silicon) Mind: Blameworthiness and Liability in Human-Machine Teaming [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 As human science pushes the boundaries towards the development of artificial intelligence (AI), the sweep of progress has caused scholars and policymakers alike to question the legality of applying or utilising AI in various human endeavours. For example, debate has raged in international scholarship about the legitimacy of applying AI to weapon ...
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Confronting the Hidden Dimensions of the Moral Life: A Caribbean Catholic Contribution
ReligionsThis article contributes to the reimagining of Roman Catholic ethics in the twenty-first century, building on the research of Sweeny Block, who argues that the unconscious dimensions of the moral life play a decisive role in moral agency.
Anna Kasafi Perkins
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Corporate Philanthropy as a Context for Moral Agency, a MacIntyrean Enquiry
Journal of Business Ethics, 2019 It has been claimed that ‘virtuous structures’ can foster moral agency in organisations. We investigate this in the context of employee involvement in corporate philanthropy, an activity whose moral status has been disputed.
H. Nicholson, Ron Beadle, R. Slack
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Filosofia Unisinos, 2018 In contemporary research on memory, the idea of mental time travel (MTT) has been connected, at the functional level, with planning and imagining what might occur in one’s future.
Eduardo Vicentini de Medeiros
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Moral diversification and moral agency: contesting business ethics among Chinese e-commerce traders
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2020 Scholarship on morality in contemporary Chinese society is divided. Some studies concur with the public discourse that a moral crisis is occurring. Others argue that there has been a continuity or revival of morality.
Linliang Qian
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