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Animal Rights and Robot Ethics

Animal Rights and Robot Ethics

Thilo Hagendorff
Copyright: © 2017 |Volume: 8 |Issue: 2 |Pages: 11
ISSN: 1947-3451|EISSN: 1947-346X|EISBN13: 9781522513766|DOI: 10.4018/IJT.2017070105
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Hagendorff, Thilo. "Animal Rights and Robot Ethics." IJT vol.8, no.2 2017: pp.61-71. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2017070105

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Hagendorff, T. (2017). Animal Rights and Robot Ethics. International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 8(2), 61-71. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2017070105

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Hagendorff, Thilo. "Animal Rights and Robot Ethics," International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 8, no.2: 61-71. http://doi.org/10.4018/IJT.2017070105

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Abstract

This paper investigates challenges which anthropocentric and pathocentric ethics have to face when confronted with moral considerations about non-human animals, especially so-called disenhanced animals, and a new class of technological artifacts, namely social robots. Referring to the case of animal welfare, robot ethics emerges as a new discipline that has not yet reflected on the ideological biases that commonly underlie moral judgments toward animals and find expression in robot ethics, too. As a consequence, robot ethics perpetuates the “work of purification,” that is, the isolation and definition of a particular entity possessing a moral status. Whenever such an entity is defined, the definition excludes all those entities which could likewise possess a moral status but do not fit exactly to the pre-specified definition. The crucial question, then, is whether to seek an ethic of unconditional compassion that doesn't allow itself to be restricted by ideology and is therefore convenient for animal rights and robot ethics as well.

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