Social robots and the intentional stance

Browning, Heather and Veit, Walter (2023) Social robots and the intentional stance. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, [e47]. (doi:10.1017/S0140525X22001595).

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Abstract

Why is it that people simultaneously treat social robots as mere designed artefacts, yet show willingness to interact with them as if they were real agents? Here, we argue that Dennett's distinction between the intentional stance and the design stance can help us to resolve this puzzle, allowing us to further our understanding of social robots as interactive depictions.

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Published date: 5 April 2023

Additional Information: Funding Information: WV's research was supported under Australian Research Council's Discovery Projects funding scheme (project number FL170100160). Publisher Copyright: © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press.

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