Why Care About Robots? Empathy, Moral Standing, and the Language of Suffering
This paper tries to understand the phenomenon that humans are able to empathize with robots and the intuition that there might be something wrong with “abusing” robots by discussing the question regarding the moral standing of robots. After a review of some relevant work in empirical psychology and...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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2018-06-01
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Series: | Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2018-0007 |