Intencionalitás - antik, kora modern és kortárs analitikus(123839) Támogató: OTKA
It is an increasingly popular view among philosophers that moral responsibility can,
in principle, be attributed to unconscious autonomous agents. This trend is already
remarkable in itself, but it is even more interesting that most proponents of this
view provide more or less the same argument to support their position. I argue that
as it stands, the Extension Argument, as I call it, is not sufficient to establish
the thesis that unconscious autonomous agents can be morally responsible. I attempt
to show that the Extension Argument should overcome especially strong ethical considerations;
moreover, its epistemological grounds are not too solid, partly because the justifications
of its premises are in conflict.
