Robot Morality: Bertram F. Malle’s Concept of Moral Competence

The morality of moral education.

Virtual Morality: Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action?

The nature of moral action versus moral judgment has been extensively debated in numerous disciplines. We introduce Virtual Reality (VR) moral paradigms examining the action individuals take in a high emotionally arousing, direct action-focused, moral scenario. In two studies involving qualitatively different populations, we found a greater endorsement of utilitarian responses-killing one in or...

Correction: Virtual Morality: Transitioning from Moral Judgment to Moral Action?

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Moral Competence in Robots?

I start with the premise that any social robot must have moral competence. I offer a framework for what moral competence is and sketch the prospects for it to be developed in artificial agents. After considering three proposals for requirements of “moral agency” I propose instead to examine moral competence as a broader set of capacities. I posit that human moral competence consists of five com...

'Moral Perception' Reflects Neither Morality Nor Perception.

Recently, Gantman andVanBavel [1] introduced thenotionof ‘moral perception’ – the claim that ‘perception is preferentially attuned to moral content’ (p. [2_TD$DIFF]631). This bold hypothesis aims to directly link vision science and social psychology, and promises exciting consequences for both fields. We explore here what it would take to demonstrate its existence.Wesuggest that moral perceptio...