What is necessary for robots to coexist with human beings? In order to do so, we suppose, robots must be moral agents. To be a moral agent is to bear its own responsibility which others cannot take for it. We will argue that such an irreplaceability consists in its having an inner world — one which others cannot directly experience, just as pleasure and pain. And personality of a moral agent, w...

This paper constructs and compares two practical approaches toward being ethical in developing information systems. Firstly, it looks into the prevailing practice of relying on rational decision-making procedures to address ethical challenges, then an alternative view on being ethical is scrutinised with the focus on moral virtues and maturity in development of moral judgement. Through a study ...

where, according to Schiffer, the concept of an F is pleonastic just in case the concept itself licenses entailments of the form: S ⇒ ∃xFx. These are what he calls "somethingfrom-nothing" entailments and the various practices in which such entailments are made are what he calls "hypostatisizing practices" (p.57). The concept of a proposition is pleonastic, according to this definition, because ...

Abstract This paper examines the psychometric properties of 30-item Moral Foundations Questionnaire among a sample 370 young adults between ages 18 and 26 years who were born in Punjab had lived there since their birth. Initial analyses did not support internal consistency reliability five scales moral predispositions proposed by this measure. Exploratory factor analysis confirmatory identified...

This paper constructs and compares two practical approaches toward being ethical in developing information systems. Firstly, it looks into the prevailing practice of relying on rational decision-making procedures to address ethical challenges, then an alternative view on being ethical is scrutinised with the focus on moral virtues and maturity in development of moral judgement. Through a study ...

T purpose of the present study was to determine the relationship between adolescents' empathy and maturity of moral reasoning with their self-reported prosocial behaviour. Fourteenyear-oldadolescents (N=311) were administered scales measuring emotional empathy, fantasy and prosocial behaviour. Kohlberg's structured moral dilemmas were used to measure moral jUdgement maturity. Data were analysed...

WHAT is your reaction to this scenario? Is this act right or wrong? Perhaps you are revolted or disgusted, and therefore think it is wrong. Or maybe, like most moral philosophers, you make a more reasoned judgement and argue that, regardless of our emotional response, this act is not immoral, principally because no harm has occurred to any sentient being. If you thought it was wrong, does this ...

Education aims to create individuals who are broad-minded, skilled, and have good morals. For this reason, moral education is seen as necessary the primary foundation in shaping a generation so that it can become global society current era of industrial revolution 4.0. In achieving goals education, various strategies needed classroom results achieved by what expected. This research quasi-experi...