@article{a53676c07c0349da89c52098ba0a32c4,
title = "Robotic Nudges for Moral Improvement through Stoic Practice in advance",
abstract = "This article offers a theoretical framework that can be used to derive viable engineering strategies for the design and development of robots that can nudge people towards moral improvement. The framework relies on research in developmental psychology and insights from Stoic ethics. Stoicism recommends contemplative practices that over time help one develop dispositions to behave in ways that improve the functioning of mechanisms that are constitutive of moral cognition. Robots can nudge individuals towards these practices and can therefore help develop the dispositions to, for example, extend concern to others, avoid parochialism, etc.",
keywords = "Moral development, Moral improvement, Nudges, Robotic companions, Social robots, Stoic ethics",
author = "Michal Klincewicz",
note = "Funding Information: I would like to thank anonymous reviewers and special editors for the many helpful and constructive comments that made this article reach its potential. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Philosophy of Risk seminar organized by Sven Ny-holm as a part of The Dutch Research School of Philosophy (OZSW) in the Technical University of Eindhoven where I received helpful feedback. Parts of this article were submitted as a seminar paper in Richard Sorabji{\textquoteright}s course on Stoic philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center many years ago. Subsequent work on the paper was partially financed by the Polish National Science Centre (NCN) SONATA 9 Grant, PSP: K/ PBD/000139 under decision UMO-2015/17/D/HS1/01705. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Philosophy Documentation Center. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.5840/techne2019122109",
language = "English",
volume = "23",
pages = "425--455",
journal = "Techn{\'e}: Research in Philosophy and Technology",
issn = "1091-8264",
number = "3",
}