On properly characterizing moral agency – CORRIGENDUM

On the Intelligence of Moral Agency

More advanced and complex applications, such as serious games, where physical and virtual environments interchange with human and artificial agents and along heavy social simulations, require another sort of architectures. With the enlarging autonomy comes an increased need to ensure that their behaviour is in line what we expect from them. Therefore, a combination of intelligence and ethics be...

On the Logical Foundations of Moral Agency

The aim of this work is to provide a logical analysis of moral agency. Although this concept has been extensively studied in social philosophy and in social sciences, it has been far less studied in the field of deontic logic and multi-agent systems (MASs). We discuss different aspects of moral agency such as the distinction between desires and moral values and the concept of moral agent. All t...

Moral Agency in Mammalia

About the extent of moral agency in the animal kingdom, one view is that only humans are moral agents. Holding a different view, I argue that moral agency depends on the capacity for other-regard and the capacity to be attuned to significance—such that things matter to one. I derive a criterion where a creature is a moral agent if she performs an action that promotes others’ significant interes...

Agency and Moral Realism

Artificial Moral Agency in Technoethics

This chapter will argue that artificial agents created or synthesized by technologies such as artificial life (ALife), artificial intelligence (AI), and in robotics present unique challenges to the traditional notion of moral agency and that any successful technoethics must seriously consider that these artificial agents may indeed be artificial moral agents (AMA), worthy of moral concern. This...