INQ120B
My Robot, My Frenemy

Activity 15

Ethics - Kantianism

  1. Robot of the Day: ICON
  2. Summary: lecture Mind Your Motive
  3. Surveys: Shopkeeper, Suicide, Dog Theft
  4. Discussion: Kantianism
    1. Is the shopkeeper’s decision to not shortchange a customer morally justified even though it was not done for a selfish reason?
    2. Are murder and suicide are morally equivalent?
    3. Who counts as a person?
    4. What does a Kantian robot look like?
  5. Activity: Dog Theft
  6. The Moral Machine

Activity: Dog Theft

With a group, determine whether and why an action is morally justified given your assigned situation and moral philosophy.

Group 1: thief didn’t know about dog’s abuse according to utiliarianism

Group 2: thief didn’t know about dog’s abuse according to libertarianism

Group 3: thief didn’t know about dog’s abuse according to kantianism

Group 4: thief wanted to rescue the dog from abuse utiliarianism

Group 5: thief wanted to rescue the dog from abuse libertariansim

Group 6: thief wanted to rescue the dog from abuse kantianism