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Living with Robots
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Living with Robots

Paul Dumouchel, Luisa Damiano and Translator Malcolm DeBevoise
Harvard UP, 2017

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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Scientific
  • Visionary
  • Concrete Examples

Recommendation

Science philosophers Paul Dumouchel and Luisa Damiano argue for a “radically embodied,” profoundly social nature of mind. “Social robotics,” they assert, offers an experimental opportunity to understand the dynamics of social interaction and to create autonomous “substitutes” – empathetic, cognitive artificial beings that aid and stand in for humans. In supporting their thesis, the authors contrast Eastern and Western popular conceptions of intelligent robots, disassemble prevailing philosophies of mind, explore potential mechanisms of “artificial empathy,” and examine the military and bureaucratic establishment’s motives in defining “moral machines.” Dumouchel and Damiano present a refreshingly pure, divergent intellectual investigation into the “coevolution” of human and robot. Students and teachers of technological change, futurist investors, and all readers intrigued by this realm of science will appreciate their big-brain, complexity-embracing approach.

Take-Aways

  • People feel strong ambivalence about robots that behave like humans.
  • In the West, fear persists about robot “slaves” that might usurp their human “masters."
  • In contrast, Japanese culture shows robot as acting heroically and feeling inner conflicts.

About the Authors

Canadian Paul Dumouchel is a professor of philosophy at the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. Luisa Damiano is an associate professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the University of Messina. Malcolm DeBevoise has translated more than 30 scholarly works from French and Italian.

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