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The curious case of human-robot morality

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This conceptual paper draws upon moral philosophy to broach the question: Are robots moral agents?

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    HRI '11: Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
    March 2011
    526 pages
    ISBN:9781450305617
    DOI:10.1145/1957656

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    Published: 06 March 2011

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    1. free will
    2. human-robot interaction
    3. moral agent
    4. moral philosophy

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