Philosophers, Engineers, and the Design of AMAs

TUT 100 - Virtue in Animal and Machine - Professor Weinman



Answer the following questions. Record your answers in your Reading Journal.
  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 (3-5 sentences) explain your reasoning.
  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 Crnkovic & Çürüklü (2012) that you feel is most closely related to this assertion (whether in agreement or not). Briefly (3-5 sentences) explain your choice.
  3. Identify the sentence or passage (three or fewer sentences) from Crnkovic & Çürüklü 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.