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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910901891003321
• Autore: Gunkel David J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge, Massachusetts : , : The MIT Press, , [2023]
• ISBN: 0-262-37522-2; 0-262-37523-0; 9780262375238
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (262 pages)
• Disciplina: 629.8/92
• Soggetti: Robots - Moral and ethical aspects; Androids - Moral and ethical aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "An argument for overturning the Kantian terms of rights and ethics in order to make progress on the robot rights debate"--