When Should We Use Care Robots? The Nature-of-Activities Approach.
When should we use care robots? In this paper we endorse the shift from a simple normative approach to care robots ethics to a complex one: we think that one main task of a care robot ethics is that of analysing the different ways in which different care robots may affect the different values at sta...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 22; no. 6; pp. 1745 - 1761 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=119356002&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 119356002 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 13533452 GNI jtl: Science & Engineering Ethics issn: 13533452 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2016 vid: 22 iid: 6 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature artinfo: ui: 119356002 10.1007/s11948-015-9715-4 ppf: 1745 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 400KB tig: atl: When Should We Use Care Robots? The Nature-of-Activities Approach. aug: au: Santoni de Sio, Filippo van Wynsberghe, Aimee affil: Section of Ethics/Philosophy of Technology, Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management , Delft University of Technology , Jaffalaan 5 2628 BX Delft The Netherlands Department of Philosophy , University of Twente , 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands su: Robots Medical robotics Medical care Medical ethics Robot design & construction Ethics sug: subj: Robots Medical robotics Medical care Medical ethics Robot design & construction Ethics keyword: Care Centered Value Sensitive Design Care robot ethics Nature-of-activities approach Robot ethics Value Sensitive Design ab: When should we use care robots? In this paper we endorse the shift from a simple normative approach to care robots ethics to a complex one: we think that one main task of a care robot ethics is that of analysing the different ways in which different care robots may affect the different values at stake in different care practices. We start filling a gap in the literature by showing how the philosophical analysis of the nature of healthcare activities can contribute to (care) robot ethics. We rely on the nature-of-activities approach recently proposed in the debate on human enhancement, and we apply it to the ethics of care robots. The nature-of-activities approach will help us to understand why certain practice-oriented activities in healthcare should arguably be left to humans, but certain (predominantly) goal-directed activities in healthcare can be fulfilled (sometimes even more ethically) with the assistance of a robot. In relation to the latter, we aim to show that even though all healthcare activities can be considered as practice-oriented, when we understand the activity in terms of different legitimate 'fine-grained' descriptions, the same activities or at least certain components of them can be seen as clearly goal-directed. Insofar as it allows us to ethically assess specific functionalities of specific robots to be deployed in well-defined circumstances, we hold the nature-of-activities approach to be particularly helpful also from a design perspective, i.e. to realize the Value Sensitive Design approach. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Science & Engineering Ethics is a copyright of Springer, 2016. All Rights Reserved. item: Science & Engineering Ethics holder: Springer Nature dt: @attributes: year: 2016 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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