Pushing the Margins of Responsibility: Lessons from Parks’ Somnambulistic Killing

David Shoemaker has claimed that a binary approach to moral responsibility leaves out something important, namely instances of marginal agency, cases where agents seem to be eligible for some responsibility responses but not others. In this paper we endorse and extend Shoemaker’s approach by presenting and discussing one more case of marginal...

Ethics and Self-driving Cars: A White Paper on Responsible Innovation in Automated Driving Systems

In the context of the knowledge agenda automated driving (knowledgeagenda.connekt.nl/engels/), Rijkswaterstaat commissioned TU Delft to write a white paper on ethical issues in automated driving to provide a basis for discussion and some recommendations on how to take into account this subject when deploying automated vehicles.<br/>In this paper...

When should we use care robots? The nature-of-activities approach