Android arete: Toward a virtue ethic for computational agents

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 247-265

  Coleman, Kari Gwen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Android arete; Computer ethics; Robot; Softbot; Software agent; Virtue ethics

Indexed keywords

NETWORK FUNCTION VIRTUALIZATION; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; ROBOTS;

ANDROID ARETE; COMPUTATIONAL AGENTS; COMPUTER ETHICS; LIST OF CHARACTERISTICS; SOFTBOT; TRADITIONAL APPROACHES; VIRTUE ETHICS;

SOFTWARE AGENTS;

EID: 52949114454     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1013805017161     Document Type: Article

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