Robot rights? Towards a social-relational justification of moral consideration

Ethics and Information Technology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 209-221

  Coeckelbergh, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Artificially intelligent robots; Ethics of robotics; Moral consideration; Relations; Rights; Social ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES; MORAL CONSIDERATION; RELATIONS; RIGHTS; SOCIAL ECOLOGIES; SOCIAL RELATIONS; SOCIAL ROBOTS; VIRTUE ETHICS;

ONTOLOGY; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS; SOCIAL SCIENCES;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 77955552566     PISSN: 13881957     EISSN: 15728439     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10676-010-9235-5     Document Type: Article

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