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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coeckelbergh Mark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2018-06-01
Series:Kairos: Journal of Philosophy & Science
Subjects:
art
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.2478/kjps-2018-0007