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ethics

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A Comprehensive Review of Neuro-symbolic AI for Robustness ... link.springer.com Springer Dec 9, 2025 3 facts

referenceArkin (2008) published 'Governing lethal behavior: Embedding ethics in a hybrid deliberative/reactive robot architecture' in the Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, discussing the integration of ethics into robot architectures.

claimMorley, Machado, Burr, Cowls, Joshi, Taddeo, and Floridi published 'The ethics of ai in health care: a mapping review' in Social Science & Medicine in 2020.

claimFuture research in neuro-symbolic AI should focus on developing standards for symbolic rule auditing, institutional governance frameworks, and interdisciplinary collaborations between the fields of AI, law, and ethics.

Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Springer Sep 14, 2022 2 facts

claimThe pathological complexity thesis may assist in ethics and policy-making because sentience is typically the criterion used to define an entity as a subject of moral concern.

claimThe conceptual engineering project regarding sentience, as described by Veit and Browning (2020b), is designed to be useful for the science of consciousness while also serving animal welfare and ethics.

Virtue Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2 facts

claimThe author contends that any viable version of virtue responsibilism must demonstrate that there is a unified set of substantive philosophical issues connected to intellectual virtues and that these issues are the proper subject matter of epistemology rather than ethics.

perspectiveThe author of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry argues that the questions identified by James Montmarquet regarding intellectual virtue are more appropriate for the subject matter of ethics than for epistemology.

Rationalism Vs. Empiricism 101: Which One is Right? - TheCollector thecollector.com The Collector Nov 9, 2023 2 facts

claimBaruch Spinoza is significant in the history of rationalism for the systematic and consistent implementation of the deductive method, following the pattern of geometry, in his work Ethics.

claimPlato established a rationalist-founded objective idealism, which served as the framework for his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics.

Not Minds, but Signs: Reframing LLMs through Semiotics - arXiv arxiv.org arXiv Jul 1, 2025 2 facts

claimChatGPT can recast Baruch Spinoza's 'Ethics' into the format of a TED Talk, presenting Spinoza's philosophy of one infinite, eternal substance (God or Nature) in a contemporary, accessible style.

claimBaruch Spinoza defined ethics as a process of alignment where an individual acts from understanding rather than impulse, leading to a state of joy described as the intellectual love of God.

Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 2 facts

claimThe ethics of belief is a field exploring the intersection of epistemology and ethics, examining the norms governing belief formation and whether violating these norms is morally wrong.

claimEpistemology is a main branch of philosophy, alongside ethics, logic, and metaphysics.

The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution link.springer.com Springer Apr 8, 2022 2 facts

claimThe author of the article 'The cross-cultural study of mind and behaviour: a word of caution' classifies theoretical concerns regarding cross-cultural studies into three categories: epistemological, ontological, and ethical.

claimEthical concerns in cross-cultural studies involve the forms of 'othering' that unqualified cross-cultural research is likely to produce in research participants.

Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu John Greco, John Turri · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 9, 1999 2 facts

referenceOwen Flanagan published 'Varieties of Moral Personality: Ethics and Psychological Realism' in 1991, which explores the intersection of ethics and psychological realism.

referenceThe book 'Intellectual Virtue: Perspectives from Ethics and Epistemology', edited by Michael DePaul and Linda Zagzebski and published in 2003 by Oxford University Press, is a collection of works regarding virtue epistemology.

Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2015 Edition) plato.stanford.edu William Seager, Sean Allen-Hermanson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy May 23, 2001 1 fact

quoteBaruch Spinoza wrote in his work Ethics (1677): “a circle existing in nature and the idea of the existing circle, which is also in God, are one and the same thing … therefore, whether we conceive nature under the attribute of Extension, or under the attribute of Thought … we shall find one and the same order, or one and the same connection of causes.”

Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Matthias Steup, Ram Neta · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Dec 14, 2005 1 fact

claimMoral epistemology addresses the question of how humans can know what makes an action right or wrong, which is the central concern of theoretical and practical ethics.

Critique of Panpsychism: Philosophical Coherence and Scientific ... thequran.love Zia H Shah MD · The Muslim Times May 7, 2025 1 fact

referenceBaruch Spinoza's dual-aspect monism, as presented in his 1677 work 'Ethics', is interpreted by some as panpsychist, asserting that all things are animate in various degrees.

Published Studies — Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and ... hopkinspsychedelic.org Johns Hopkins Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research 1 fact

referenceP. Tiwari, R. Ehrenkranz, and D. B. Yaden authored a paper titled 'Developing an Ethics and Policy Framework for Psychedelic Clinical Care: A Consensus Statement' published in JAMA Network Open in 2024.

Understanding epistemology and its key approaches in research cefcambodia.com Koemhong Sol, Kimkong Heng · Cambodian Education Forum Jan 21, 2023 1 fact

claimAxiology is a branch of philosophy that deals with ethics, aesthetics, and religion; in the context of research, it refers to the values and ethical beliefs held by a researcher.

Neuroethics and AI ethics: a proposal for collaboration - PMC pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov PMC Aug 29, 2024 1 fact

claimThe article 'Neuroethics and AI ethics: a proposal for collaboration' explores how a collaborative relationship between neuroethics and AI ethics can stimulate theoretical and governance efforts.

Understanding LLM Understanding skywritingspress.ca Skywritings Press Jun 14, 2024 1 fact

claimJocelyn Maclure is a professor of political philosophy at McGill University who researches ethics, political philosophy, and artificial intelligence, specifically exploring metaphysical questions like the mind-body problem and personal identity.

What is the main difference between Rationalism and Empiricism? byjus.com BYJU'S 1 fact

claimRationalism is applied in fields such as logical reasoning, mathematics, morals, ethics, and metaphysics.

Episode 2: The Hard Problem of Consciousness – David Chalmers ... futurepointdigital.substack.com Future Point Digital Jul 24, 2025 1 fact

claimFuture Point Digital is a research-based consultancy and think tank that integrates psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, ethics, and literary fiction to explore human qualities in an AI-driven world.

David Chalmers Thinks the Hard Problem Is Really Hard scientificamerican.com Scientific American Apr 10, 2017 1 fact

claimEric Schwitzgebel concluded after studying ethical philosophers that they are 'no more ethical than the rest of us' and that thinking about ethics does not necessarily change their actual lives.

Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia 1 fact

claimThe Association for Politics and the Life Sciences is an international and interdisciplinary association of scholars, scientists, and policymakers concerned with evolutionary, genetic, and ecological knowledge and its bearing on political behavior, public policy, and ethics.

Virtue Epistemology, Anyone? - The Philosophers' Magazine - philosophersmag.com The Philosopher's Magazine 1 fact

claimLinda Zagzebski posits that intellectual virtues are a subset of moral virtues, which implies that epistemology is a branch of ethics.

Quantum Approaches to Consciousness plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Nov 30, 2004 1 fact

referenceBaruch de Spinoza published Ethics in 1677, with a collected works edition edited by E. Curley published by Princeton University Press in 1985 and 2016.

The Role of Epistemic Communities and Expert Testimonies in ... academia.edu Academia.edu 1 fact

claimEpistemic communities contribute to the implementation of ethics in practice areas through mutual cooperation between ethical experts and relevant experts from the specific problem area.

Neuro-Symbolic AI: Explainability, Challenges, and Future Trends arxiv.org arXiv Nov 7, 2024 1 fact

claimThe representation space in neuro-symbolic AI determines the technical foundation, the feasibility of achieving explainability and transparency, and the overall impact on ethics and society.

Panpsychism - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Jul 18, 2017 1 fact

quoteIn the illustrative scholium to proposition seven of book two of the Ethics, Baruch Spinoza writes: "a circle existing in nature and the idea of the existing circle, which is also in God, are one and the same thing … therefore, whether we conceive nature under the attribute of Extension, or under the attribute of Thought … we shall find one and the same order, or one and the same connection of causes…."

AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Conspicuous Cognition Feb 17, 2026 1 fact

claimAnil Seth describes the "dilemma of brutalism" in AI ethics as the choice between expending moral resources on systems that do not deserve them or treating systems that seem conscious as if they are not.