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    Foreseeable care robots do not provide care in the morall... — Carmelics
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    Foreseeable care robots do not provide care in the morally or experientially relevant sense

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    • 1.Actual and foreseeable robots in care are assistive robots that automate technical tasks
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    • 2.These robots are 'care robots' only in the behavioural sense of performing tasks in care environments
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    • 3.The success of 'being cared for' relies on the intentional sense of care
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    • 1.Dennett's intentional stance theory holds that intentionality is legitimately ascribed based on predictive utility, not intrinsic mental states.
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    • 2.If a care robot reliably produces the behavioral and relational outcomes constitutive of care, ascribing genuine intentional care to it is philosophically warranted.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's appeal to 'intentional care' smuggles in a Cartesian internalism that Dennett's functionalism has already put under serious pressure.
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    • 1.Nel Noddings's care ethics grounds caring relationships in responsiveness and attentiveness to the cared-for's needs, not in the metaphysical status of the carer.
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    • 2.Advanced care robots can be designed to model, track, and adaptively respond to individual patient needs in ways that satisfy Noddings's relational criteria for care.
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    • 3.The claim conflates the phenomenology of the carer's inner life with the morally relevant relational structure of the caring encounter, which care ethicists treat as distinct.
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    One reason why the issue of care has come to the fore is that people have argued that we will need robots in ageing societies. This argument makes problematic assumptions, namely that with longer lifespan people will need more care, and that it will not be possible to attract more humans to caring professions. It may also show a bias about age (Jecker forthcoming). Most importantly, it ignores the nature of automation, which is not simply about replacing humans, but about allowing humans to work
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    The claim conflates the phenomenology of the carer's inner life with the morally...
    The success of 'being cared for' relies on the intentional sense of care
    The supporting argument's appeal to 'intentional care' smuggles in a Cartesian i...
    These robots are 'care robots' only in the behavioural sense of performing tasks...
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