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1002Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and PhilosophyJournal of Philosophy of Life. 2023.This book is a collection of all the papers published in the special issue “Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Philosophy,” Journal of Philosophy of Life, Vol.13, No.1, 2023, pp.1-146. The authors discuss a variety of topics such as science fiction and space ethics, the philosophy of artificial intelligence, the ethics of autonomous agents, and virtuous robots. Through their discussions, readers are able to think deeply about the essence of modern technology and the future of humanity. All pap…Read more
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163Mary Midgley, Covid-19, and That Beastly Illusion (review)Berlin Review of Books 8. 2020.The article provides a short overview of some major topics in Midgley's work like animal rights, the relationship of science and art (especially poetry), and the place of normative ethics in both public and private life. Midgley was an influential promoter of taking animal rights seriously, she deflated overblown claims of several famous science popularisers like Dawkins, and argued for the importance of participating in public life actively.
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279Making Sense of the Knobe-effect : Praise demands both Intention and VoluntarinessJournal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy 13 11-20. 2022.The paper defends the idea that when we evaluate whether agents deserve praise or blame for their actions, we evaluate both whether their action was intentional, and whether it was voluntary. This idea can explain an asymmetry in blameworthiness and praiseworthiness: Agents can be blamed if they have acted either intentionally or voluntarily. However, to merit praise we expect agents to have acted both intentionally and voluntarily. This asymmetry between demands of praise and blame offers an in…Read more
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362Mary Midgley: Philosopher of Human Nature and ImaginationPhilCul 5 (1): 388-404. 2020.The paper provides a brief introduction to Midgley's person and work, and an overview of The Biscuit Tin memorial event-series in honor of Midgley.
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381Agents in movementKagaku Tetsugaku 143 61-83. 2019.The paper discusses the category of one of the most fundamental expressions of agency, those movements of agents that are actions. There have been three dominant views of action since the 1960s: 1. the Causal Theory of Action, 2. the Tryings/Willings view, and 3. Agent Causation. These views claim that actions are: 1. events of bodily movements which have the right causes; 2. specific types of mental events causing events of bodily movements; 3. instances of the causal relationship between agent…Read more
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48Kieran Setiya: Practical Knowledge: New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Hardcover £56/74$. 308 pages (review)Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (4): 1019-1020. 2018.Review of Setiya's collection of essays titled Practical Knowledge
István Zárdai
Juntendo University, Tokyo
Keio University
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Juntendo University, TokyoLecturer
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Keio UniversityVisiting Lecturer
Japan
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