Ethics is the branch of philosophy that explores the nature of moral virtue and evaluates human actions. Philosophical ethics differs from legal, religious, cultural and personal approaches to ethics by seeking to conduct the study of morality through a rational, secular outlook that is grounded in notions of human happiness or well-being. A major advantage of a philosophical approach to ethics...

Humans need morality and ethics to get along constructively as members of the same society. As we face the prospect of robots taking a larger role in society, we need to consider how they, too, should behave toward other members of society. To the extent that robots will be able to act as agents in their own right, as opposed to being simply tools controlled by humans, they will need to behave ...

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During the past decade, the ‘script’ concept, indicating the actively prescribing role of technologies in human actions, has acquired a central place in STS. Up to now, the concept has mainly functioned in descriptive settings. This paper will deploy the concept in a normative setting. When technologies play a role in the coming about of human actions, they give material answers to the ethical ...

Humans need morality and ethics to get along constructively as members of the same society. As we face the prospect of robots taking a larger role in society, we need to consider how they, too, should behave toward other members of society. To the extent that robots will be able to act as agents in their own right, as opposed to being simply tools controlled by humans, they will need to behave ...

Society, even outside of the field of science and medicine, is faced with ethical dilemmas every day in which people are forced to take a stance and make difficult decisions. However, the question becomes where do these decisions come from? What are ethics? And is there bias involved in the drawing of these ethical conclusions? Philosophers have been pondering these questions for centuries and ...