Friendships are taken to be valuable because they are an important aspect of the good life. We get companionship, stave off loneliness, feel happier and safer around friends. Some also argue that friendship is morally valuable as through our nships we can learn about ourselves,. grow as people and be inspired to be better people.
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Can we move beyond the Aristotelian account of friendship when thinking about our relationships with robots? Can we hate robots? In this episode, I talk to Helen Ryland about these topics. Helen is a UK-based philosopher. She completed her PhD in Philosophy in 2020 at the University of Birmingham. She now works as an Associate Lecturer for The Open University. Her work examines human-robot relationships, video game ethics, and the personhood and moral status of marginal cases of human rights (e.g., subjects with dementia, nonhuman animals, and robots).
