Why Machine Morality?

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  1. Graff and Birkenstein suggest that "as soon as possible you state your own position and the one it's responding to together, and that you think of the two as a unit" (p. 21). Identify the sentence or short passage (no more than three sentences, please) from Chapter 1 of Wallach and Allen you feel best demonstrates this practice. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your selection, noting how you think they measure up to the advice.
  2. Select the sentence that you feel best describes the authors' definition of what it means to be moral. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your choice.
  3. Select the sentence from from today's reading that you feel shows the greatest contrast with the definition of morality given by Bekoff and Pierce. Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your selection.
  4. Write a 25 word (no more, no less) précis that answers the title of the chapter, "Why Machine Morality?"