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dc.contributor.authorPARETO BOADA, Júlia
dc.contributor.authorCOECKELBERGH, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-16T10:46:46Z
dc.date.available2024-07-16T10:46:46Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.identifier.citationInternational journal of social robotics, 2024, OnlineFirsten
dc.identifier.issn1875-4791
dc.identifier.issn1875-4805
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/77072
dc.descriptionPublished online: 15 July 2024en
dc.description.abstractThe development of social assistive robots for supporting healthcare provision faces a lack of an ethical approach that adequately addresses the normatively relevant challenges regarding its deployment. Current ethical reflection is primarily informed by an individual-centered perspective focused on robots’ implications for their end-users and thereby limited to the dyadic human–robot interaction sphere. Considering that this is tightly correlated to the restricted understanding of core ethical concepts upon which reflection stands, this paper delves into the concept of freedom from a philosophical perspective to unfold its full normative breadth for a critical assessment of technological development. By bringing to the fore the political-structural dimension of freedom and, in turn, elaborating the political dimension of technology, the undertaken philosophical approach discloses freedom as a transversal ethical concept for a normative reflection on technology. Thereby, it broadens the scope of ethical attention beyond the sphere of human–robot interaction and turns attention to the so far overlooked structural dimension of human–robot relations. Drawing on conceptions of freedom as non-domination, among others, the paper approaches social assistive robotics and reexamines the terrain of relevant issues for its development. Since freedom is one major issue upon which current concerns revolve, the undertaken analysis substantially enriches the ongoing ethical discussion on social assistive robotics’ implications for human freedom. In this way, this work contributes to going beyond the current individual-centered ethical perspective by laying conceptual grounds for a comprehensive ethical approach to social assistive robotics’ development.en
dc.description.sponsorshipOpen Access funding provided thanks to the CRUE-CSIC agreement with Springer Nature. This work has been partially supported by grant PRE2018-084286 funded by MCIN/ AEI /https://doi.org/10.13039/501100011033 and by "ESF Investing in your future", and by the European Union Horizon 2020 Programme under grant agreement no. 741930 (CLOTHILDE).en
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dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartofInternational journal of social roboticsen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleSocial assistive robotics : an ethical and political inquiry through the lens of freedomen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s12369-024-01161-x
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