The machine question : critical perspectives on AI, robots, and ethics / David J. Gunkel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gunkel, David J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robotics--Human factors.

Robotics.

Robotics--Moral and ethical aspects.

Robotics--Philosophy.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

xiv, 256 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2012]

Contents:

1 Moral Agency 15

1.1 Introduction 15

1.2 Agency 18

1.3 The Mechanisms of Exclusion 24

1.4 The Mechanisms of Inclusion 39

1.4.1 Personal Properties 45

1.4.2 Turing Tests and Other Demonstrations 55

1.5 Personal Problems and Alternatives 65

1.5.1 Rethinking Moral Agency 67

1.5.2 Functional Morality 74

1.6 Summary 88

2 Moral Patiency 93

2.1 Introduction 93

2.2 Patient-Oriented Approaches 94

2.3 The Question of the Animal 108

2.3.1 Terminological Problems 114

2.3.2 Epistemological Problems 117

2.3.3 Ethical Problems 125

2.3.4 Methodological Problems 133

2.4 Information Ethics 143

2.5 Summary 153

3 Thinking Otherwise 159

3.1 Introduction 159

3.2 Decentering the Subject 163

3.3 The Ethics of Social Construction 170

3.4 Another Alternative 175

3.4.1 The Animal Other 181

3.4.2 Other Things 185

3.4.3 Machinic Others 197

3.5 Ulterior Morals 205.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780262017435

0262017431

OCLC:

767824947