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- Title
Should We Treat Teddy Bear 2.0 as a Kantian Dog? Four Arguments for the Indirect Moral Standing of Personal Social Robots, with Implications for Thinking About Animals and Humans.
- Authors
Coeckelbergh, Mark
- Abstract
The use of autonomous and intelligent personal social robots raises questions concerning their moral standing. Moving away from the discussion about direct moral standing and exploring the normative implications of a relational approach to moral standing, this paper offers four arguments that justify giving indirect moral standing to robots under specific conditions based on some of the ways humans—as social, feeling, playing, and doubting beings—relate to them. The analogy of "the Kantian dog" is used to assist reasoning about this. The paper also discusses the implications of this approach for thinking about the moral standing of animals and humans, showing why, when, and how an indirect approach can also be helpful in these fields, and using Levinas and Dewey as sources of inspiration to discuss some challenges raised by this approach.
- Subjects
SOCIAL robots; TEDDY bears; SOCIAL status; HUMAN-machine relationship; DOGS; ARGUMENT
- Publication
Minds & Machines, 2021, Vol 31, Issue 3, p337
- ISSN
0924-6495
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11023-020-09554-3