The ethical debate on robots has become a cutting edge issue in many countries. It is, however, most often approached through an us-versus-them perspective—as if we were watching a soccer game and taking one side. Informed by Eastern as well as Western thought, the meta-ethical aim of this paper is to test the basis for this type of discrimination when it comes to human-robot interaction. Furthermore, the paper will take Heidegger's warning concerning technology as a vantage point and explore the possibility of human-robot interaction forming a praxis that might help humans to be with robots beyond the limits of our conceptual framing and even facilitate the self-development of the human involved.
Original language
English
Title of host publication
Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations : Proceedings of Robo-Philosophy 2014
Robo-Philosophy: Social Robotics and the Future of Social Relations - Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark Duration: 20 Aug 2014 → 23 Aug 2014 Conference number: 1
Conference
Conference
Robo-Philosophy
Nummer
1
Location
Aarhus University
Land
Denmark
By
Aarhus
Periode
20/08/2014 → 23/08/2014
Series
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume
273
ISSN
0922-6389
Bibliographical note
Volume 273: Sociable Robots and the Future of Social Relations
Research areas
philosophy of technology, meta-ethics, human-robot interaction, epistemology