Domination, servitude et révolte

100 years of servitude.

The ethics of robot servitude

Suppose we could build creatures with intelligence comparable to our own, who by design want to do tasks we find unpleasant. May we build such creatures? This is the central question I wish to examine. Before we turn to my answer and its defense, though, I’d like briefly to consider something philosophers typically do not stop to consider: namely, why we might ask the question in the first plac...

Algorithmes exponentiels pour l'étiquetage, la domination et l'ordonnancement

This manuscript of Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches enlights some results obtained since my PhD, I defended in 2007. The presented results have been mainly published in international conferences and journals. Exponential-time algorithms are given to solve various decision, optimization and enumeration problems. First, we are interested in solving the L(2,1)-labeling problem for which sever...

Beyond Metaphor: Battered Women, Involuntary Servitude and the Thirteenth Amendment

Deontology – Born and Kept in Servitude by Utilitarianism

The distinction between teleology and deontology is today almost universally accepted within practical philosophy, but deontology is and has from the beginning been subordinate to utilitarianism. ‘Deontology’ was constructed by Bentham to signify the art and science of private morality within a utilitarian worldview. The classical distinction was constructed by Broad as a refinement of Sidgwick...