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

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...

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Main Authors: Esguerra, John Andrei E., Haduca, Daniel Christopher L., Manalo, Jeulian Clarisse C.
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spelling oai:animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph:conf_shsrescon-17072023-08-28T05:57:03Z An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen Esguerra, John Andrei E. Haduca, Daniel Christopher L. Manalo, Jeulian Clarisse C. 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? Ethical concerns for the sexbots”, where he argues that sexbots are not wronged for performing the functions they are designed for. We respond to this claim by arguing for John Danaher’s Theory of Ethical Behaviorism (2020). If ethical behaviorism is correct in claiming that behavior is a sufficient ground for moral status ascription, we see sexbot ownership as unethical. We argue for our claim and show that the moral considerability of the sexbot could be proven under the standards given in our framework for ascribing moral status. 2021-04-29T20:00:00Z text application/pdf 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 DLSU Senior High School Research Congress Animo Repository ethics robot ethics robot servitude sexbots ethical behaviorism
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topic ethics
robot ethics
robot servitude
sexbots
ethical behaviorism
spellingShingle ethics
robot ethics
robot servitude
sexbots
ethical behaviorism
Esguerra, John Andrei E.
Haduca, Daniel Christopher L.
Manalo, Jeulian Clarisse C.
An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen
description 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? Ethical concerns for the sexbots”, where he argues that sexbots are not wronged for performing the functions they are designed for. We respond to this claim by arguing for John Danaher’s Theory of Ethical Behaviorism (2020). If ethical behaviorism is correct in claiming that behavior is a sufficient ground for moral status ascription, we see sexbot ownership as unethical. We argue for our claim and show that the moral considerability of the sexbot could be proven under the standards given in our framework for ascribing moral status.
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author Esguerra, John Andrei E.
Haduca, Daniel Christopher L.
Manalo, Jeulian Clarisse C.
author_facet Esguerra, John Andrei E.
Haduca, Daniel Christopher L.
Manalo, Jeulian Clarisse C.
author_sort Esguerra, John Andrei E.
title An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen
title_short An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen
title_full An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen
title_fullStr An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen
title_full_unstemmed An Ethical Inquiry to Personhood as the Standard for Sexbot Ownership: A Response to S. Petersen
title_sort ethical inquiry to personhood as the standard for sexbot ownership: a response to s. petersen
publisher Animo Repository
publishDate 2021
url 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
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