• Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics (edited book)
    IOS Press. 2020.
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    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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    Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robots : The attitudes towards social robots scale
    with Malene Flensborg Damholdt, Christina Vestergaard, Marco Nørskov, Raul Hakli, and Stefan Larsen
    Interaction 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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    Towards a new scale for assessing attitudes towards social robots
    with Malene Flensborg Damholdt, Christina Vestergaard, Marco Nørskov, Raul Hakli, and Stefan Larsen
    Interaction 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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    Attitudinal Change in Elderly Citizens Toward Social Robots: The Role of Personality Traits and Beliefs About Robot Functionality
    with Malene F. Damholdt, Marco Nørskov, Ryuji Yamazaki, Raul Hakli, Catharina Vesterager Hansen, and Christina Vestergaard
    Frontiers 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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    Depiction as possible phase in the dynamics of sociomorphing
    Behavioral 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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    Integrative social robotics, value-driven design, and transdisciplinarity
    with Malene Flensborg Damholdt and Christina Vestergaard
    Interaction 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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    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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    Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2020 (edited book)
    with Marco Norskov and Oliver S. Quick
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    Process Metaphysics. An Introduction to Process Philosophy (review)
    Review of Metaphysics 51 (3): 713-714. 1998.
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    Particulars
    In Roberto Poli & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Theories and Applications of Ontology, Springer. 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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    Beyond Endurance and Perdurance: Recurrent Dynamics
    In Christian Kanzian (ed.), Persistence, Ontos. pp. 133-164. 2007.
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    Integrative Social Robotics Hands-on
    with Kerstin Fischer, Raffaele Rodogno, Maike Kirkegård Rasmussen, Astrid Weiss, Leon Bodenhagen, William Kristian Juel, and Norbert Krüger
    Interaction 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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    Understanding Emotions and Their Significance through Social Robots, and Vice Versa
    Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 23 (3): 257-269. 2019.
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    What Social Robots Can and Should Do: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016 (edited book)
    with Marco Nørskov and Søren Schack Andersen
    IOS Press. 2016.
  • Wilfrid Sellars
    with Johannes Hubner
    Philosophisches Jahrbuch 115 (2): 444. 2008.
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    Non-countable [ndlviduals
    Southwest Philosophy Review 12 (1): 225-236. 1996.
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    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
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    Ontological Scope and Linguistic Diversity: Are The Universal Categories?
    Journal of Semantics 4 (98): 318-343. 2015.
    The aim of this paper is to address a longstanding concern about the linguistic ‘relativ- ity’ of ontological categories, and resulting limitations in the scope of ontological theo- ries. Given recent evidence on the influence of language on cognitive dispositions, do we have empirical reasons to doubt that there are ontological categories that have uni- versal scope across languages? I argue that this is the case, at least if we retain the stan- dard ‘inferential’ approach within analytical onto…Read more
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    The 'Umbau' - from Constitution Theory to Constructional Ontology
    History of Philosophy Quarterly 14 (3). 1997.
    The paper traces, historically and systematically, the influence of Carnap’s philosophical program on the writings of Nelson Goodman, focusing on the relationship between Carnap’s Aufbau and Goodman’s Structure of Appearance. In particular, drawing on unpublished material from the Carnap Research Archives, I show that Carnap had already anticipated Goodman’s criticism of the method of quasi-analysis and that Goodman misconstrued the status of this procedure on several counts. I also argue tha…Read more
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    This thesis promotes a therapeutic revision of fundamental assumptions in contemporary ontological thought. I show that none of the extant standard theories of objects provides a viable account of the numerical, qualitative, and trans-temporal identity of objects, and that this is due to certain substance-ontological premises. I argue that in order to state the identity conditions of objects we must abandon these premises, together with the idea that objects enjoy ontological primacy. ;I follow …Read more
  • Schwerpunkt: Wilfrid Sellars' nominalistischer Naturalismus
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48 (4): 595-598. 2000.
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    Process Philosophy
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2013.