On Making Moral Citizens

The moral responsibility of consumers as citizens

The paper addresses the extent of, and preconditions for, consumers’ moral responsibility for sustainable consumption. Starting from the concept of consumer citizenship it is argued that full citizenship includes both rights and duties. The established set of Kennedy’s consumer rights is used as a basis for deriving corresponding consumer duties, which foster sustainable development. It will be...

Agents making moral decisions

As the environments that intelligent agents operate in become more reflective of the real world, agent’s decision-making processes must become more nuanced. In this paper, we present a decision-making model for an intentional agent which has been inspired by Kohlberg’s theory of moral development and the appraisal theory of emotion. Agents utilising this model anticipate how undertaking actions...

Making Moral Decisions

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Discriminating Citizens: Making Judgements About Science

Moral Decision Making with ACORDA

This paper shows how moral decisions can be drawn computationally by using ACORDA, a working implementation of prospective logic programming. ACORDA is employed to model moral dilemmas, as they are able to prospectively look ahead at the consequences of hypothetical moral judgments. With this knowledge of consequences, moral rules are then used to decide the appropriate moral judgments. The who...