Social robotics and the good life : : the normative side of forming emotional bonds with robots / / edited by Janina Loh, Wulf Loh.

• Superior document: Edition Moderne Postmoderne
• TeilnehmendeR: Loh, Janina,; Loh, Wulf,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Edition Moderne Postmoderne
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (265 pages)

Robots as social companions in close proximity to humans have a strong potential of becoming more and more prevalent in the coming years, especially in the realms of elder day care, child rearing, and education. As human beings, we have the fascinating ability to emotionally bond with various counterparts, not exclusively with other human beings, but also with animals, plants, and sometimes even objects. Therefore, we need to answer the fundamental ethical questions that concern human-robot-interactions per se, and we need to address how we conceive of »good lives«, as more and more of the aspects of our daily lives will be interwoven with social robots.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Contents -- Introduction - Social Robotics and the Good Life -- Part I - Understanding, Defining, Conceptualizing -- Virtues, Robots, and Good Lives: Who Cares? -- The Relational Turn -- From Tool Use to Social Interactions -- Reflecting (on) Replika -- Part II - Design, Imitation, Trust -- You Can Love a Robot, But Should You Fight With it? -- Empathic Machines? -- Part III - Care, Love, Sex -- Granny and the Sexbots -- Alice Does not Care -- Emotional Embodiment in Humanoid Sex and Love Robots -- Contributors.