Review paper
Danaher’s Ethical Behaviourism: An Adequate Guide to Assessing the Moral Status of a Robot?
Abstract
This paper critically assesses John Danaher’s ‘ethical behaviourism’, a theory on how the moral status of robots should be determined. The basic idea of this theory is that a robot’s moral status is determined decisively on the basis of its observable behaviour. If it behaves sufficiently similar to some entity that has moral status, such as a human or an animal, then we should ascribe the same moral status to the robot as we do to this human or...
Paper Details
Title
Danaher’s Ethical Behaviourism: An Adequate Guide to Assessing the Moral Status of a Robot?
Published Date
Jun 16, 2020
Volume
26
Issue
5
Pages
2849 - 2866
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