Is shame social? Is it superficial? Is it a morally problematic emotion? Researchers in
disciplines as different as psychology, philosophy, and anthropology have thought so. But …

Medical, psychological, educational and social interventions to modify the behaviour of
autistic people are only justified if they confer benefit on those people. However, it is not …

Philosophers concerned with the question of personal identity have typically been asking
the so-called re-identification question: what are the conditions under which a person at one …

In this article, I examine the relevance and desirability of shame and guilt to restorative
justice conferences. I argue that a careful study of the psychology of shame and guilt reveals …

I examine the nature of human-robot pet relations that appear to involve genuine affective
responses on behalf of humans towards entities, such as robot pets, that, on the face of it, do …

In this paper, we discuss the development of robot use cases in an elderly care facility in the
context of exploring the method of Integrative Social Robotics (ISR) when used on top of a …

Background Guidelines suggest the patient community should be consulted from the outset
when designing and implementing basic biomedical research, but such patient communities …

In this chapter, the author urges whether people can coherently conceive of robots as moral
agents and as moral patients. He also argues that that day is not today and that if that day …

Kim, a high school graduate, is considering a number of rather unsurprising questions:
Should I become a doctor, endure a long period of study without an income, but hopefully …

The point of departure of this paper is the recently emphasised distinction between
psychological theories of happiness, on the one hand, and normative theories of well-being …