Paula Sweeney
Social Robots: A Fictional Dualism Model
Social Robots: A Fictional Dualism Model
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Social robots are becoming increasingly important in society, challenging our ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological intuitions. The fictional dualism model provides a new way to view social robots and a route for our continued relationship with them, allowing us to create fictional overlays with wants, needs, and desires. This emotional attachment is natural and important but does not prompt moral consideration for the fictional entity.
Format: Hardback
Length: 160 pages
Publication date: 15 December 2023
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Social robots are becoming increasingly prevalent in society, serving as customer service assistants, care-home helpers, teaching assistants, and personal companions. This book contends that the broader integration of social robots in our society is having a transformative impact on our ethical, metaphysical, and epistemological beliefs, posing challenges to many of our established theories. Social robots evoke emotional and social responses in humans, leading some to argue that they should be granted moral consideration. However, others maintain that, as machines, robots should be designed to avoid fostering emotional attachment. The fictional dualism model offers a novel perspective on social robots and a path for continued interaction with them. When engaging with a social robot, we create a fictional overlay that includes desires, needs, and wants. Our emotional connection with social robots is a natural extension of our relationship with fiction, enhancing our lives but not necessitating moral consideration for the fictional entity. In this book, Paula Sweeney highlights the distinctiveness and ethical appropriateness of the fictional dualism model in facilitating emotional engagement without moral implications. Moreover, the model establishes conditions for trust in social robots and uniquely enables the individuation of social robots as distinct individuals, even when they possess a collective mind.
Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538185025
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