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Can Technological Artefacts Be Moral Agents?

In this paper we discuss the hypothesis that, ‘moral agency is distributed over both humans and technological artefacts’, recently proposed by Peter-Paul Verbeek. We present some arguments for thinking that Verbeek is mistaken. We argue that artefacts such as bridges, word processors, or bombs can n...

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Autores principales: Peterson, Martin, Spahn, Andreas
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3183318/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20927601
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11948-010-9241-3