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Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-Ethics

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The development and diffusion of social robots gives increasingly rise to ethical and legal concerns related to, e.g., responsibility assignments in cooperative tasks, implementation of moral rules in robots, possible dual uses and misuses of artificial agents, unintended modifications of social, cognitive, emotive and communication abilities in humans interacting with robots. The urgency of developing effective ethical inquiries related to these issues leads specialists to acknowledge the need to overcome classical approaches, based exclusively on philosophical analysis. Emerging trends are incorporating, within the frameworks of ethical inquiries on social robots, a series of methods, tools and scenarios defining empirical research in Social Robotics and HRI. The main goal of the Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics special issue is to represent and stimulate the current front-line debate on possibilities, limits and ways of this new orientation, with a specific focus on the role that experiments can play in addressing ethical and legal issues concerning social human-robot interaction. To this end the special issue will include a number of articles illustrating concrete pioneering experimental and integrative approaches in Robo-ethics, and discussing their groundings, procedures, results, impacts, developments, possibilities and limits. The ultimate aspiration is to activate the process of constitution of an interdisciplinary community engaged in the constitution of a well-defined research line in Experimental and Integrative Robo-ethics. All papers submitted to this Special Issue have to be unpublished and presenting original and recent developments in the topics listed below. The number of pages required for each submission must fall between 15 (minimum) and 35 (maximum), references and appendixes included. List of Potential Topics (Experimental, Integrative) Robo-ethics Robot Ethics Ethics of Social Robotics and HR Integrative Social Robotics Synthetic Ethics The Synthetic Method applied to Ethics Experiments in Social Robotics and HRI related to ethical issues Improvement of the ethical dimension of social robots Implementation of moral rules in (social) robots Emergent ethical issues in social and affective human-robot interaction Social and cultural implications of current trends in Social Robotics and HRI.

Editors

  • Francesco Bianchini Francesco Bianchini , 

    Francesco Bianchini

    Associate professor at the Department of Philosophy and Communication Studies of the University of Bologna (Italy). He obtained a PhD in Philosophy at the University of Bologna while visiting at the Center of Research on Concepts and Cognition of Indiana University. He is a researcher in philosophy of science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science. He works on disciplines such as artificial intelligence, robotics, and synthetic biology, and their connections, and he is also interested in some forms of inductive and analogical reasoning. He is the author of several international publications in journals and books.

  • Luisa Damiano Luisa Damiano , 

    Luisa Damiano

    Associate professor of Philosophy ofd Science at the IULM University of Milan (Italy), where she coordinates the Research Group on Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial (RG-ESA). Her main research fields are: Epistemology of the Sciences of Complex Systems; Epistemology of the Cognitive Sciences and Philosophy of Mind, Epistemology of the Sciences of the Artificial, with a focus on the Synthetic Modeling of Life and Cognition, in particular in Synthetic Biology and in Cognitive, Developmental and Social Robotics. On the topics of her research she published many articles, co-edited a number of special issues.

  • Edoardo Datteri Edoardo Datteri  &

    Edoardo Datteri

    Associate professor at the Department of Human Science for Education, University of Milano-Bicocca, where he teaches Philosophy of Science and Educational Robotics. He is founder and coordinator of the RobotiCSS Lab (Laboratory of Robotics for the Cognitive and Social Sciences) of the same University. He obtained his PhD in philosophy at the University of Pisa and, from 2001 to 2005, was research collaborator at the Advanced Robotics Technology and Systems Laboratory of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa.

  • Pierluigi Graziani Pierluigi Graziani

    Pierluigi Graziani

    Master Degree in Philosophy at the University of Urbino (Italy) in 2001, and his PhD in Logic and Epistemology at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2007. In 2010 he held a three years' Postdoctoral position in the History of Mathematics, Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Urbino; and from July 2014 to August 2017 he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Chieti-Pescara. From December 2018 he has been working as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Urbino.

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