Philosophers, Engineers, and the Design of AMAs

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman

1. Give an example from your own experience where you were a third, uninvolved party making an ethical evaluation of some choice. Did you practice a "judge perspective" or an "agent perspective" in your appraisal? Briefly explain your reasoning (3-5 sentences).
2. Wallach and Allen assert that AMA design "will demand that human moral decision making be analyzed to a degree of specificity as yet unknown" (p. 76). Identify the sentence or passage (no more than three sentences, please) by Asaro that you feel is most closely related (whether in agreement or not) to this assertion. Briefly explain your choice.
3. Identify the sentence or passage (three or fewer sentences) from Asaro that you feel is the most important. Explain your selection in some detail (about five sentences).
4. Select a sentence from the section Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approaches in today's reading that you feel is most closely related to Bekoff and Pierce's argument for animal morality. Briefly explain whether your choice supports, denies, or complicates the Wild Justice argument.