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Person, thing, robot : a moral and legal ontology for the 21st century and beyond /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gunkel, David J. (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2023]
Subjects:
Robots > Moral and ethical aspects.
Androids > Moral and ethical aspects.
PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • 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?
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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