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2IntroductionIn Johanna Seibt & Jesper Garsdal (eds.), How is Global Dialogue Possible?: Foundational Reseach on Value Conflicts and Perspectives for Global Policy, De Gruyter. pp. 453-462. 2014.
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95IntroductionIn Johanna Seibt & Jesper Garsdal (eds.), How is Global Dialogue Possible?: Foundational Reseach on Value Conflicts and Perspectives for Global Policy, De Gruyter. pp. 119-128. 2014.
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Social Robots in Social Institutions - Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022 (edited book)IOS Press. 2023.
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Social Robots in Social Institutions. Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2022 (edited book)IOS PRESS. 2023.
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Social Robots in Social Institutions. Proceedings of Robophilosophy’22 (edited book)IOS Press. 2022.
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Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. Volume 335: Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics (edited book)IOS Press. 2020.
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68Climate Change and the Concept of Shared Ecological ResponsibilityEnvironmental Ethics 35 (2): 163-187. 2013.The recent debate about justice and responsibility increasingly tries to accommodate a new type of agentive situation in which local short-term actions have global long-term consequences due to the action’s embedding in complex interactional networks. Currently the debate is shifting focus from the spatial to the temporal dimension of such wide-scope results of individual actions. This shift from “global ethics” to “intergenerational ethics” and, in particular, “climate ethics” requires some new…Read more
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29Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robots : The attitudes towards social robots scaleInteraction Studies 21 (1): 24-56. 2020.Background: The surge in the development of social robots gives rise to an increased need for systematic methods of assessing attitudes towards robots. Aim: This study presents the development of a questionnaire for assessing attitudinal stance towards social robots: the ASOR. Methods: The 37-item ASOR questionnaire was developed by a task-force with members from different disciplines. It was founded on theoretical considerations of how social robots could influence five different aspects of rel…Read more
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66Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robotsInteraction Studies 21 (1): 24-56. 2020.Background: The surge in the development of social robots gives rise to an increased need for systematic methods of assessing attitudes towards robots. Aim: This study presents the development of a questionnaire for assessing attitudinal stance towards social robots: the ASOR. Methods: The 37-item ASOR questionnaire was developed by a task-force with members from different disciplines. It was founded on theoretical considerations of how social robots could influence five different aspects of rel…Read more
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87Attitudinal Change in Elderly Citizens Toward Social Robots: The Role of Personality Traits and Beliefs About Robot FunctionalityFrontiers in Psychology 6 1701. 2015.Attitudes toward robots influence the tendency to accept or reject robotic devices. Thus it is important to investigate whether and how attitudes toward robots can change. In this pilot study we investigate attitudinal changes in elderly citizens toward a tele-operated robot in relation to three parameters: (i) the information provided about robot functionality, (ii) the number of encounters, (iii) personality type. Fourteen elderly residents at a rehabilitation center participated. Pre-encounte…Read more
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17Depiction as possible phase in the dynamics of sociomorphingBehavioral and Brain Sciences 46. 2023.The depiction model presents a major advance in our theoretical conceptualization of how humans experience and understand social robots. But the scope of the model is, I suggest, more limited: It pertains to one possible phase in a more comprehensive cognitive-practical dynamics of sense-making (“sociomorphing”) as conceptualized in the OASIS framework. According to the OASIS framework, some basic social actions can be realized by robots, while others may be depicted in the way described by the …Read more
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14Integrative social robotics, value-driven design, and transdisciplinarityInteraction Studies 21 (1): 111-144. 2020.“Integrative Social Robotics” (ISR) is a new approach or general method for generating social robotics applications in a responsible and “culturally sustainable” fashion. Currently social robotics is caught in a basic difficulty we call the “triple gridlock of description, evaluation, and regulation”. We briefly recapitulate this problem and then present the core ideas of ISR in the form of five principles that should guide the development of applications in social robotics. Characteristic of IS…Read more
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16Process Theories: Crossdisciplinary Studies in Dynamic CategoriesSpringer Verlag. 2003.Processes constitute the world of human experience - from nature to cognition to social reality. Yet our philosophical and scientific theories of nature and experience have traditionally prioritized concepts for static objects and structures. The essays collected here call for a review of the role of dynamic categories in the language of theories. They present old and new descriptive tools for the modelling of dynamic domains, and argue for the merits of process-based explanations in ontology, c…Read more
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43Properties as Processes: A Synoptic Study of Wilfrid Sellars' NominalismRidgeview Publishing Co.. 1990.
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106Process Metaphysics. An Introduction to Process Philosophy (review)Review of Metaphysics 51 (3): 713-714. 1998.
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484How to Naturalize Intentionality and Sensory Consciousness within a Process Monism with Gradient Normativity--A Reading of SellarsIn James R. O'Shea (ed.), Sellars and His Legacy, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 186-222. 2016.
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118Beyond Endurance and Perdurance: Recurrent DynamicsIn Christian Kanzian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 133-164. 2007.
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127ParticularsIn Roberto Poli & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Theory and Applications of Ontology: Philosophical Perspectives, Springer Verlag. pp. 23--55. 2010.According to the standard view of particularity, an entity is a particular just in case it necessarily has a unique spatial location at any time of its existence. That the basic entities of the world we speak about in common sense and science are particular entities in this sense is the thesis of “foundational particularism,” a theoretical intuition that has guided Western ontological research from its beginnings to the present day. The main aim of this paper is to review the notion of particul…Read more
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“Sociality and Normativity for Robots”: An IntroductionIn Raul Hakli & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Sociality and Normativity for Robots. Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality., Springer. 2017.
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22Integrative Social Robotics Hands-onInteraction Studies 21 (1): 145-185. 2020.In this paper, we discuss the development of robot use cases in an elderly care facility in the context of exploring the method of Integrative Social Robotics when used on top of a user-centered design approach. Integrative Social Robotics is a new proposal for how to generate responsible, i.e. culturally and ethically sustainable, social robotics applications. Starting point for the discussion are the five principles that characterize an ISR approach, which are discussed in application to the t…Read more
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29Understanding Emotions and Their Significance through Social Robots, and Vice VersaTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 23 (3): 257-269. 2019.
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1What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016 (edited book)IOS Press. 2016.
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Towards an Ontology of Simulated Social Interaction: Varieties of the “As If” for Robots and HumansIn Raul Hakli & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Sociality and Normativity for Robots. Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality., Springer. 2017.
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117The myth of substance and the fallacy of misplaced concretenessActa Analytica 15 61-76. 2000.Substance ontologists claim that substances are ontologically primary because the category of substance enjoys unique explanatory potential. Unless it can be shown that "only" substances fulfill the central explanatory tasks in ontology, this inference from explanatory success to ontological primacy amounts to a fallacy akin to the error Whitehead called 'the fallacy of misplaced concreteness'. I investigate recent prototypical arguments for substance metaphysics and try to show that some explan…Read more