Behdadi, Dorna | NONHUMAN MORAL AGENCY : a practice-focused exploration of moral agency in nonhuman animals and artificial intelligence

Boken utforskar moralagentens begrepp och ifrågasätter om icke-mänskliga djur och AI kan tillerkännas moraliskt ansvar.

• Utforskar moralisk ansvar hos icke-mänskliga varelser.

• Utmanar traditionella uppfattningar om moralisk agentur.

• I häftad. Publicerad 2023.

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Bindning: Häftat band

Bokförlag: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis
ISBN: 9789179631499

Omfång: 201 s.
Språk: Engelska
Utgivningsdatum: 2023-12-05

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Can nonhuman animals and artificial intelligence (AI) entities be attributed moral agency? The general assumption in the philosophical literature is that moral agency applies exclusively to humans since they alone possess free will or capacities required for deliberate reflection. Consequently, only humans have been taken to be eligible for ascriptions of moral responsibility in terms of, for instance, blame or praise, moral criticism, or attributions of vice and virtue. Animals and machines may cause harm, but they cannot be appropriately ascribed moral responsibility for their behavior. This thesis challenges the conventional paradigm by proposing an alternative approach where moral agency is conceived as the competence to participate in moral responsibility practices. By shifting focus from intra-individual to contextual and socially situated features, this practice-focused approach appears to make the attribution of moral agency to nonhuman animals and AI entities more plausible than commonly assumed. Moreover, considering the current and potential future prevalence of nonhuman animals and AI entities in everyday settings and social contexts, a potential extension of moral agency to such entities could very well transform our social, moral, and legal practices. Hence, this thesis proposes that the attribution or withholding of moral agency to different entities should be carefully evaluated, considering the potential normative implications.

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