CAHSS Faculty Articles
Can Humans and Robots Be Friends?
Publication Title
Dialogue and Universalism: International Society for Universal Dialogue
ISSN
1234-5792
Publication Date
2-2018
Abstract
This essay engages the question whether it makes sense to talk about friendship between human beings and robots. Encountering the question of human and robot friendship, many might initially dismiss the possibility of such relationships out of hand. But such dismissals, it seems, based solely on the basis of species membership, are nothing more than unjustifiable speciesism. Mitias’s analysis of friendship is helpful, but makes the conditions for friendship demanding. Nevertheless, his framework implies that human and robot friendships are possible.
DOI
10.5840/du201828224
Volume
2018
Issue
2
First Page
49
Last Page
64
NSUWorks Citation
Mulvey, B. (2018). Can Humans and Robots Be Friends?. Dialogue and Universalism: International Society for Universal Dialogue, 2018 (2), 49-64. https://doi.org/10.5840/du201828224
