Social robots and the intentional stance.

Journal: The Behavioral and brain sciences
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Abstract

Why is it that people simultaneously treat social robots as mere designed artefacts, yet show willingness to interact with them as if they were real agents? Here, we argue that Dennett's distinction between the intentional stance and the design stance can help us to resolve this puzzle, allowing us to further our understanding of social robots as interactive depictions.

Authors

  • Walter Veit
    School of History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia wrwveit@gmail.com; https://walterveit.com/.
  • Heather Browning
    London School of Economics and Political Science, Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK DrHeatherBrowning@gmail.com; https://www.heatherbrowning.net/.