Moral Psychology and Artificial Agents (Part Two)

Moral Intelligence for Human and Artificial Agents

A specific form of human and artificial intelligence is needed for an efficient practice or a successful implementation of a moral code. The actual stage and rate of progress in AI studies are generated by their orientation to develop mainly an abstract intelligence form. We propose the integrated analysis of the intelligence as of the morality, considered as systems with internal structure. Is...

Moral Relativism and Moral Psychology

Moral Psychology

One goal of moral psychologists is to understand the cognitive processes that support and influence human moral judgment. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this task has proven to be quite daunting. Moral psychology, as well as moral philosophy and anthropology have revealed great diversity in human moral judgment. Moral philosophers have debated ethics for centuries, yet to this day display a wide diver...

Innateness and Moral Psychology

Although linguistic nativism has received the bulk of attention in contemporary innateness debates, moral nativism has perhaps an even deeper ancestry. If linguistic nativism is Cartesian, moral nativism is Platonic. Moral nativism has taken a backseat to linguistic nativism in contemporary discussions largely because Chomsky made a case for linguistic nativism characterized by unprecedented ri...

Moral Action Changes Mind Perception for Human and Artificial Moral Agents

Mind perception is studied for three different agents: a human, an artificial human, and a humanoid robot. The artificially created agents are presented as being undistinguishable from a human. Each agent is rated on 15 mental capacities. Three mind perception dimensions are identified Experience, Agency, and Cognition. The artificial agents are rated higher on the Cognition dimensions than on ...