Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
Jul 1, 2017
Within the literature surrounding nonhuman animals on the one hand and cognitively disabled humans on the other, there is much discussion of where beings that do not satisfy the criteria for personhood fit in our moral deliberations. In the future, w...
Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees
Apr 1, 2016
It seems natural to think that the same prudential and ethical reasons for mutual respect and tolerance that one has vis-à-vis other human persons would hold toward newly encountered paradigmatic but nonhuman biological persons. One also tends to thi...
Autonomous robots are increasingly interacting with users who have limited knowledge of robotics and are likely to have an erroneous mental model of the robot's workings, capabilities, and internal structure. The robot's real capabilities may diverge...