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20Review of Artificial Intelligence: Reflections in Philosophy, Theology and the Social Sciences by Benedikt P. Göcke and Astrid Rosenthal-von der Pütten (review)AI and Society 36 (2): 655-659. 2021.
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117Artificial moral and legal personhoodAI and Society 1-15. forthcoming.This paper considers the hotly debated issue of whether one should grant moral and legal personhood to intelligent robots once they have achieved a certain standard of sophistication based on such criteria as rationality, autonomy, and social relations. The starting point for the analysis is the European Parliament’s resolution on Civil Law Rules on Robotics and its recommendation that robots be granted legal status and electronic personhood. The resolution is discussed against the background of…Read more
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18Smart Technologies and Fundamental Rights (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2020.The present volume, _Smart Technologies and Fundamental Rights_, contains fourteen outstanding and challenging articles concerning fundamental rights and Artificial Intelligence at the intersection of law, ethics and smart technologies.
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13Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk , 50 Voices of Disbelief. Why We Are Atheists: Wiley-Blackwell: Malden MA/oxford/west Sussex 2009, pp. 346. ISBN-10: 1405190469. £16.99 , £55Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (2): 271-276. 2012.
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55Building Moral Robots: Ethical Pitfalls and ChallengesScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (1): 141-157. 2020.This paper examines the ethical pitfalls and challenges that non-ethicists, such as researchers and programmers in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence and robotics, face when building moral machines. Whether ethics is “computable” depends on how programmers understand ethics in the first place and on the adequacy of their understanding of the ethical problems and methodological challenges in these fields. Researchers and programmers face at least two types of problems due to …Read more
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37Is Inclusive Education a Human Right?Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 41 (4): 754-767. 2013.In this article, I question the general idea that inclusive education — i.e., to teach all students in one class — is a moral human right. The following discussion shows that the widespread view in disability studies that there is a moral human right to inclusive education can be reasonably called into question by virtue of the proposed counter arguments, but without denying that inclusive education is of utmost importance. Practically speaking, the legal human right to inclusive education is of…Read more
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28Human Rights and Cultural IdentityBaltic Journal of Law and Politics 8 (2): 112-135. 2015.Universal human rights and particular cultural identities, which are relativistic by nature, seem to stand in conflict with each other. It is commonly suggested that the relativistic natures of cultural identities undermine universal human rights and that human rights might compromise particular cultural identities in a globalised world. This article examines this supposed clash and suggests that it is possible to frame a human rights approach in such a way that it becomes the starting point and…Read more
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15Remarks on disability rights legislationEquality, Diversity and Inclusion. An International Journal 37 (5): 506-526. 2018.
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Should moral enhancement be compulsory?Ethical Perspectives 23 (2): 277-305. 2016.Some authors fear that humanity is on the verge of its own extinction and must either change its behaviour or inevitably cause its own demise. This situation has spawned a vigorous (bio)ethical debate in recent years concerning whether one should enhance human beings cognitively or morally in order to promote moral action and reduce harm. This article defends making moral bioenhancement compulsory to avoid grossly immoral actions and the global extinction of humanity, if it is available, safe an…Read more
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180What do we owe to intelligent robots?AI and Society 35 (1): 209-223. 2020.Great technological advances in such areas as computer science, artificial intelligence, and robotics have brought the advent of artificially intelligent robots within our reach within the next century. Against this background, the interdisciplinary field of machine ethics is concerned with the vital issue of making robots “ethical” and examining the moral status of autonomous robots that are capable of moral reasoning and decision-making. The existence of such robots will deeply reshape our soc…Read more
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17Global Bioethics and Human Rights: Contemporary Issues (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield. 2014.Editors Wanda Teays, John-Stewart Gordon, and Alison Dundes Renteln have assembled the works of an interdisciplinary, international team of experts in bioethics into a comprehensive, innovative and accessible book. Topics covered range from torture and lethal injection to euthanasia, sex selection, vulnerable human subjects, to health equity, safety and public health, and environmental disasters like Bhopal, Fukushima, and more.
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54The status of the in vitro embryoBioethics 22 (5). 2008.The volume presents 20 essays on the ontological, moral, and legal status of the in vitro embryo.
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26Russell Blackford and Udo Schüklenk , 50 Voices of Disbelief. Why We Are Atheists: Wiley-Blackwell: Malden MA/oxford/west Sussex, 2009, pp. 346. ISBN-10: 1405190469. £16.99 , £55Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 13 (4): 477-482. 2010.
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45International conference: Justice in modern health care. Perspectives for the 21st century, hosted by the BMBF-Junior Research Group “Justice in Modern Medicine”: 28–30 March 2011 Bochum, Germany (review)Ethik in der Medizin 23 (3): 251-253. 2011.
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20BioethicsIn James Fieser & Bradley Dowden (eds.), Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Routledge. 2011.
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1On justifying human rightsIn Michael Boylan (ed.), The Morality and Global Justice Reader, Westview Press. pp. 27--49. 2011.
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IntroductionIn John-Stewart Gordon, Michael Boylan, Robert Paul Churchill, James A. Donahue, Marcus Duwell, Dale Jacquette, Tanja Kohen, Christopher Lowry, Seumas Miller, Gabriel Palmer-Fernandez, Johann-Christian Poder, Edward H. Spence, Udo Schuklenk, Wanda Teays & Rosemarie Tong (eds.), Morality and Justice: Reading Boylan's a Just Society, Lexington Books. 2009.
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87Global ethics and principlismKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 21 (3): 251-276. 2011.In his landmark article “How Medicine Saved the Life of Ethics” (1982), Stephen Toulmin persuasively argues that (serious) problems cannot be solved by mere rationalistic approaches in ethics and that ethics was eventually saved by dint of having to deal with vital questions and concrete problems in medicine. Whether one is a proponent of, for example, principlism or casuistry, one certainly has to admit that a convincing ethical theory or method must have practical application. Analogously, it …Read more
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18Poverty, human rights, and just distributionIn Michael Boylan (ed.), International Public Health Policy & Ethics, Dordrecht. pp. 131--141. 2008.
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Moral, Rationalität und Gelungenes Leben (review)Zeitschrift für Philosophische Forschung 59 (4). 2005.
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106Human Rights in Bioethics–Theoretical and AppliedEthical Theory and Moral Practice 15 (3). 2012.N.N.
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58Russell blackford and Udo Schüklenk (eds.), 50 voices of disbelief. Why we are atheistsEthical Theory and Moral Practice 13 (4): 477-482. 2010.
John-Stewart Gordon
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
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Lithuanian University of Health SciencesOther (Part-time)