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Moral agency

Moral agency is an individual's ability to make moral choices based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions. A moral agent is "a being who is capable of acting with reference to right and wrong."

Development and analysis, Distinction between moral agents and moral patients & Artificial moral agents

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PhilosophersRationalReasonMentally disabledDeterminists
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Distinction between moral agents and moral patients

Moral patientsUtilitarianJeremy BenthamPeter SingerMoral community
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Artificial moral agents

Artificial systems and moral responsibilityMachine ethics
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MoralRight and wrong
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Development and analysis

Distinction between moral agents and moral patients

Artificial moral agents

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Moral agency

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Moral agency

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related to Non-human animals · 6
Moral agency → Discussion, However, Since, Studies, There, Thinkers
related to Artificial moral agents · 5
Moral agency → Discussions, Finally, Research, The, These
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Moral agency → individual's ability to make moral choices based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions

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Moral agencyis aindividual's ability to make moral choices based on some notion of right and wrong and to be held accountable for these actions0.90text
guilt or griefinstance ofcan demonstrate empathy and emotions0.80text
though some thinkers dispute thisinstance ofcan demonstrate empathy and emotions0.80text
the ability to engage in abstractinstance ofhumans display distinctive capacities related to intelligence and rationality0.80text
symbolic thoughtinstance ofhumans display distinctive capacities related to intelligence and rationality0.80text
to employ complex language.Philosophersinstance ofhumans display distinctive capacities related to intelligence and rationality0.80text
biologists who claim that non-human animals are moral agents typically argue that moral agency is dependent on empathy or social relationsinstance ofhumans display distinctive capacities related to intelligence and rationality0.80text
and stress the evidence for these in non-human animalsinstance ofhumans display distinctive capacities related to intelligence and rationality0.80text
the punishment of wrongdoers are nevertheless underpinned by very different internal processesinstance ofThey argue that shared behaviors0.80text
meaning that these behaviors qualify as moral activity for humans but not for non-humansinstance ofThey argue that shared behaviors0.80text
Moral agencyrelated to Artificial moral agentsDiscussions0.60section
Moral agencyrelated to Artificial moral agentsThe0.60section

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