Overview
- Brings together a group of top scholars on the issue of the social and cultural implications of sex robots
- Provides the most updated contents of the relevant moral issues involving sex robots
- Of interest to a broad audience, including researchers in bioethics and human sexual behavior
Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (PSCC, volume 28)
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About this book
This book provides cross-cultural ethical exploration of sex robots and their social impact. What are the implications of sex robots and related technological innovations for society and culture? How should we evaluate the significance of sexual relations with robots that look like women, men or children? Critics argue that sex robots present a clear risk to real persons and a social degradation that will increase sexual violence, objectify women, encourage pedophilia, reinforce negative body images, increase forms of sexual dysfunction, and pass on sexually transmitted disease. Proponents judge robotic sexual companionship as just another step in the exploration of human desire. They see sex robots, and similar technology, such as virtual reality pornography, as providing autonomy affirming companionship for the lonely and a relatively harmless outlet for sexual fantasies that avoids the use of human prostitutes and thus reduces sexual victimization. Some appreciate sex robots as a social evil, others as a positive good, and still others as a harmless pastime. How we come to terms with such conceptual and moral concerns will have significant implications for society and the future of human relations. This book is of great interest to researchers in bioethics, human sexual behavior, AI ethics, and philosophy of sex.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Digisexuality, Sexbots, and Other Twenty-First Century Innovations
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Sex: Shifting Cultural and Moral Norms
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Reviews
“This volume special is that it has contributors from different cultural and philosophical backgrounds. … I hope that readers can see that this anthology is very rich both in the sense of containing comparative perspectives … and in the sense that there are actually dialogues among its contributors. These interesting philosophical exercises can surely help readers to reflect not only on ethical implications of the use of sex robots, but also on issues in applied ethics in general.” (Tongdong Bai, Dao, Vol. 22 (1), 2023)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ruiping FAN received his medical degree from Baotou College of Medicine in Inner Mongolia and PhD in philosophy from Rice University in Houston. He is currently a professor of philosophy at the City University of Hong Kong. He also serves as Co-Editor of the International Journal of Chinese & Comparative Philosophy of Medicine (Hong Kong), Associate Editor of The Journal of Medicine & Philosophy (USA) and Chinese Medical Ethics (mainland China). His research focuses on bioethics as well as Confucianism and comparative philosophy. He has published over 170 journal articles and book chapters (over 90 in English and 80 in Chinese). Among his two monographs and ten edited/co-edited volumes is Reconstructionist Confucianism: Rethinking Morality after the West via Springer in 2010.
Mark J. Cherry is the Dr. Patricia A. Hayes Professor in Applied Ethics and Professor of Philosophy at St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. He earned his undergraduate degree in philosophy from the University of Houston and his doctorate degree in philosophy from Rice University in Houston, Texas. His research compasses ethics and bioethics, together with social and political philosophy. He is author of Kidney for Sale by Owner: Human Organs, Transplantation, and the Market (Georgetown University Press, 2005; 2015) and Sex, Family, and the Culture Wars (Routledge, 2016). He is Editor of The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy (Oxford University Press), Senior Editor of Christian Bioethics (Oxford University Press), and Editor-in-Chief of HealthCare Ethics Committee Forum (Springer); he is Co-editor of the book series The Annals of Bioethics (Routledge) and Editor of the book series Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture (Springer)
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sex Robots
Book Subtitle: Social Impact and the Future of Human Relations
Editors: Ruiping Fan, Mark J. Cherry
Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82280-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82279-8Published: 04 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82282-8Published: 05 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82280-4Published: 03 November 2021
Series ISSN: 0928-9518
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 204
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Bioethics, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence