| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 231 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1 Introduction -- 1.1 Robot Rights -- 1.2 The Debate -- 1.3 Terminology -- 1.4 Plan of Attack -- 1.5 Method of Analysis -- 1.5.1 Double Science -- 1.5.2 Raison d'être -- 1.6 Preview/Overview -- 1.7 Final Words -- 2 Things -- 2.1 What Is a Thing? -- 2.2 The Thing with Robots -- 2.2.1 The Critics and Their Arguments -- 2.2.2 The Advocates and Their Arguments -- 2.3 Shared Assumptions and Difficulties -- 2.3.1 Determination -- 2.3.2 Detection -- 2.3.3 Decision -- 2.4 Outcomes and Results -- 3 Persons -- 3.1 What Is a Person? |
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3.1.1 Metaphysical and Moral Persons -- 3.1.2 Legal Person -- 3.2 What Are Rights? -- 3.3 Having Rights -- 3.3.1 Natural Rights -- 3.3.2 Legal Rights -- 3.4 Natural versus Artificial Persons -- 3.4.1 Natural Persons -- 3.4.2 Artificial Persons -- 3.5 Outcomes and Results -- 4 Natural Persons -- 4.1 The Critics and Their Arguments -- 4.1.1 Organic View Arguments -- 4.1.2 Critical Reappraisals and Responses -- 4.2 The Advocates and Their Arguments -- 4.2.1 Qualifying Criteria -- 4.2.2 Litmus Tests -- 4.2.3 Critical Reappraisals and Responses -- 4.2.4 Work-Arounds -- 4.3 Outcomes and Results |
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5 Artificial/Legal Persons -- 5.1 The Critics and Their Arguments -- 5.1.1 Dismissal and Denial -- 5.1.2 Pragmatic Arguments -- 5.1.3 Different Versions of Conservatism -- 5.1.4 Summary -- 5.2 The Advocates and Their Arguments -- 5.2.1 Contract Law -- 5.2.2 Trusts and Limited Liability Corporations -- 5.2.3 Responsibility/Accountability -- 5.3 Outcomes and Results -- 6 Both/And -- 6.1 Alternatives and Synthetic Solutions -- 6.1.1 Slaves and Artificial Servants -- 6.1.2 Robot Slaves -- 6.2 Critical Problems and Complications -- 6.2.1 Partial Solution -- 6.2.2 Slavery -- 6.2.3 Mastery |
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6.2.4 Ethnocentrism -- 6.3 Other Solutions -- 6.3.1 Teilrechtsfähigkeit -- 6.3.2 Nonpersonal Subjects of Law -- 6.3.3 Bundle Theory of Legal Personhood -- 6.3.4 Three Liability Regimes -- 6.3.5 Gradient Theory of Personhood -- 6.4 Outcomes and Results -- 7 Deconstructing Things -- 7.1 Things Redux -- 7.1.1 Objectifying Things -- 7.1.2 Other Things -- 7.2 An Ethics of Things -- 7.2.1 Potential Objections and Responses -- 7.2.2 Outcomes and Future Opportunities -- 7.3 The Order of Things -- Notes -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
"An argument for overturning the Kantian terms of rights and ethics in order to make progress on the robot rights debate"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
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COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 25, 2023) |
| Subject |
Robots -- Moral and ethical aspects
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Androids -- Moral and ethical aspects
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2022033534 |
| ISBN |
9780262375238 |
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0262375230 |
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9780262375221 |
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0262375222 |
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