Social Robotics and the Future of Social Relations

August 20, 2014 - August 23, 2014
Aarhus University

Aarhus
Denmark

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CONFERENCE THEME

Sociable robots likely will play an increasing role in future everyday life--assisting and replacing humans in many contexts, from caretaking to teaching to entertainment.  How will this affect human social interaction, as notion and as practice?  Are there limits to the functional similation of social interaction?  How much of a ‘theory of mind’ do robots need to be ‘sociable’? If we engage with robots as if they were persons, how will this affect how we understand ourselves?  -- The conference will address these and other philosophical questions that arise with design and use of sociable robots.

The conference features 52 speakers in 2 keynotes, 7 plenaries, and 36 session talks; see www.robo-philosophy.org for the full program with abstracts and speaker information.

KEYNOTES

Hiroshi Ishiguro, Director of the Intelligent Robotics Laboratory, Department of Systems Innovation, Osaka University, Japan.

Illah R. Nourbakhsh, Department of Robotics, Carnegie Mellon University, USA.

PLENARIES

Mark Coeckelbergh, Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, UK.

Kerstin Dautenhahn, Centre for Computer Science and Informatics Research, University of Hertfordshire, UK.

Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, UK.

David Gunkel, Department of Communications, Northern Illinois University, USA.

Peter Kahn, Department of Psychology, University of Washington, USA.

John Sullins, Department of Philosophy, Sonoma State University, USA.

Wendell Wallach. Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University, USA.

PARALLEL  SESSIONS

Achitecture and capacities—Applied Ethics—Communication—Cultural and Political Issues—Embodied and Social Cognition—

Empathy and Understanding—Ethics and Moral Agency—Ontology of Simulation—Normativity—Responsibility and Agency—

Sociality—Studies of Applications

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August 10: Registration closes (onsite registration possible, but without conference meals)

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