Etica e fantascienza. Io, robot e i dilemmi etici

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https://doi.org/10.13135/2704-8195/11203

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Ethics, Science Fiction, Dilemma, Anthropology, Uncanny

Abstract

Isaac Asimov’s collection of short stories I, Robot is best known for his formulation of the “Three Laws of Robotics”. It is a science-fiction novel, thus a work of literary art, but also a true ethical-philosophical reflection. The three laws, in fact, apart from being principles of computer programming through which the robots and machines imagined by Asimov are constructed, are also actual rules of behaviour for them. Asimov himself admits that he was inspired by human ethics in formulating the laws. Asimov, however, is by no means an apologist for the three laws; on the contrary, it could be said that his reflection is to be a questioning of any normative approach to ethics, be it human or artificial. The aim of this essay will therefore be to investigate the extent to which Asimov’s imagery can serve as a litmus test of real, human problems.

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Ivan Rotella

Ivan Rotella has two PhD, the first one in “History of Ideas, Historical Dynamics and Models of Rationality” at the Università della Calabria and the second one in “Philosophical Sciences” at the Univesità di Napoli Federico II. He wrote about the relationship between philosophy and psychoanalysis, about the reflection of Theoder Lipps on empathy and about Nietzschean critique of morality. He is the author of essays and book on ethical implications of Freudian thought, like La galassia filosofica freudiana. Freud e i filosofi alla luce dell’eredità morale kantiana (Roma 2014), Freud o Nietzsche. Apparenti assonanze e incompatibilità etiche (Napoli 2016) and, together with Ines Crispini, Breve viaggio nell’inconscio freudiano (Napoli 2017).

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2024-11-01

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Rotella, I. (2024). Etica e fantascienza. Io, robot e i dilemmi etici. Filosofia, (69). https://doi.org/10.13135/2704-8195/11203

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No. 69 (2024): sci-phi

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