An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen

• Main Authors: Esguerra, John Andrei E., Haduca, Daniel Christopher L., Manalo, Jeulian Clarisse C.
• Format: text
• Published: Animo Repository 2021
• Subjects: ethics; robot ethics; robot servitude; sexbots; ethical behaviorism
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/conf_shsrescon/2021/paper_tph/1; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/context/conf_shsrescon/article/1707/viewcontent/Esguerra_et_al.pdf
• Institution: De La Salle University

In the field of robot ethics, debates about sexbots, their personhood, and their moral status continue. To provide our stance in this debate, we ask the question: Is it unethical for sexbots to be owned? This paper responds to the claims of Steve Petersen’s (2016) paper “Is it good for them too? Eth...