Machine Question Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics

Name: Machine Question Critical Perspectives on AI, Robots, and Ethics
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ISBN: 9780262017435

ISBN-10: 0262017431

ISBN-13: 9780262017435

Edition: 2012

Authors: David J. Gunkel

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One of the enduring concerns of moral philosophy is deciding who or what is deserving of ethical consideration. Much recent attention has been devoted to the "animal question"--consideration of the moral status of nonhuman animals. In this book, David Gunkel takes up the "machine question": whether and to what extent intelligent and autonomous machines of our own making can be considered to have legitimate moral responsibilities and any legitimate claim to moral consideration. The machine question poses a fundamental challenge to moral thinking, questioning the traditional philosophical conceptualization of technology as a tool or instrument to be used by human agents. Gunkel begins by…

Book details

List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/13/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Moral Agency



Introduction



Agency



The Mechanisms of Exclusion



The Mechanisms of Inclusion



Personal Properties



Turing Tests and Other Demonstrations



Personal Problems and Alternatives



Rethinking Moral Agency



Functional Morality



Summary



Moral Patiency



Introduction



Patient-Oriented Approaches



The Question of the Animal



Terminological Problems



Epistemological Problems



Ethical Problems



Methodological Problems



Information Ethics



Summary



Thinking Otherwise



Introduction



Decentering the Subject



The Ethics of Social Construction



Another Alternative



The Animal Other



Other Things



Machinic Others



Ulterior Morals


Notes


References


Index