Charlotte Franziska Unruh
Biographic Data
| ID | 8995651 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Franziska Unruh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte Franziska |
| FAMILY NAME | Unruh |
| SIGNATURE | UNRUH C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3953-7617 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Does It Matter Who Creates and Uses Artificial Colleagues? Response to Branda
In ‘The Illusion of “AI-First”: Organizational Rationality and the Performative Translation of AI Hype’, Francesco Branda offers pertinent observations about how AI tools are implemented in organisations. Branda points out that AI systems are not always implemented through formal processes by managers. Instead, employees turn to AI informally. This observation points to a blind spot of our recent article, ‘The Potential and Limitations of Artific…
The Concept of Harm in Medical Ethics
The concept of harm is central to medical ethics. In particular, it is frequently used in ethical deliberation about clinical cases and harm‐benefit analyses. Despite its significance, there has been surprisingly little discussion in practice about conceptual approaches and the nature of harm in medical ethics analyses. We examine how different conceptual accounts of harm shape ethical decision making through examples from clinical ethics consult…
The Potential and Limitations of Artificial Colleagues
This article assesses the potential of artificial colleagues to help us realise the goods of collegial relationships and discusses its practical implications. In speaking of artificial colleagues, it refers to AI-based agential systems in the workplace. The article proceeds in three steps. First, it develops a comprehensive account of the goods of collegial relationships. It argues that, in addition to goods at the individual level, collegial rel…
Debating the Priority of Human Collegial Relationships
In our article “The Potential and Limitations of Artificial Colleagues”, we argue that policy makers and industry leaders ought to prioritise human collegial relationships over relationships with artificial colleagues. We call this the Principle of Strict Priority of Human Collegial Relationships (PSP) . Nicholas Carroll offers an intriguing critique of PSP, claiming that it is not a plausible candidate for a governance principle because it is in…
More on the Hybrid Account of Harm
According to the hybrid account of harm, an agent suffers harm if the agent has negative wellbeing or is worse off than before. However, Erik Carlson, Jens Johansson, and Olle Risberg have criticized the hybrid account, arguing that it finds harm where there is none in cases of temporary benefits and that it fails to find harm in the case of death. In this note, I defend the hybrid account against both criticisms
A Hybrid Account of Harm
When does a state of affairs constitute a harm to someone? Comparative accounts say that being worse off constitutes harm. The temporal version of the comparative account is seldom taken seriously, due to apparently fatal counterexamples. I defend the temporal version against these counterexamples, and show that it is in fact more plausible than the prominent counterfactual version of the account. Non-comparative accounts say that being badly off…
Letting Climate Change
Recent work by Ingmar Persson and Jason Hanna has posed an interesting new challenge for deontologists: How can they account for so-called cases of letting oneself do harm? In this article, I argue that cases of letting oneself do harm are structurally similar to real-world cases such as climate change, and that deontologists need an account of the moral status of these cases to provide moral guidance in real-world cases. I then explore different…
The Strings Attached to Bringing Future Generations into Existence
Many people believe that we have moral duties towards those we bring into existence in the short term: our children. Many people also believe that we have moral duties towards those we bring into existence in the long term: future generations. In this article, I explore how these beliefs are connected. I argue that the present generation is morally responsible for future generations in virtue of bringing them into existence. This responsibility e…
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Letting Climate Change
Recent work by Ingmar Persson and Jason Hanna has posed an interesting new challenge for deontologists: How can they account for so-called cases of letting oneself do harm? In this article, I argue that cases of letting oneself do harm are structurally similar to real-world cases such as climate change, and that deontologists need an account of the moral status of these cases to provide moral guidance in real-world cases. I then explore different…
The Strings Attached to Bringing Future Generations into Existence
Many people believe that we have moral duties towards those we bring into existence in the short term: our children. Many people also believe that we have moral duties towards those we bring into existence in the long term: future generations. In this article, I explore how these beliefs are connected. I argue that the present generation is morally responsible for future generations in virtue of bringing them into existence. This responsibility e…
A Hybrid Account of Harm
When does a state of affairs constitute a harm to someone? Comparative accounts say that being worse off constitutes harm. The temporal version of the comparative account is seldom taken seriously, due to apparently fatal counterexamples. I defend the temporal version against these counterexamples, and show that it is in fact more plausible than the prominent counterfactual version of the account. Non-comparative accounts say that being badly off…
More on the Hybrid Account of Harm
According to the hybrid account of harm, an agent suffers harm if the agent has negative wellbeing or is worse off than before. However, Erik Carlson, Jens Johansson, and Olle Risberg have criticized the hybrid account, arguing that it finds harm where there is none in cases of temporary benefits and that it fails to find harm in the case of death. In this note, I defend the hybrid account against both criticisms
The Potential and Limitations of Artificial Colleagues
This article assesses the potential of artificial colleagues to help us realise the goods of collegial relationships and discusses its practical implications. In speaking of artificial colleagues, it refers to AI-based agential systems in the workplace. The article proceeds in three steps. First, it develops a comprehensive account of the goods of collegial relationships. It argues that, in addition to goods at the individual level, collegial rel…
Debating the Priority of Human Collegial Relationships
In our article “The Potential and Limitations of Artificial Colleagues”, we argue that policy makers and industry leaders ought to prioritise human collegial relationships over relationships with artificial colleagues. We call this the Principle of Strict Priority of Human Collegial Relationships (PSP) . Nicholas Carroll offers an intriguing critique of PSP, claiming that it is not a plausible candidate for a governance principle because it is in…
Does It Matter Who Creates and Uses Artificial Colleagues? Response to Branda
In ‘The Illusion of “AI-First”: Organizational Rationality and the Performative Translation of AI Hype’, Francesco Branda offers pertinent observations about how AI tools are implemented in organisations. Branda points out that AI systems are not always implemented through formal processes by managers. Instead, employees turn to AI informally. This observation points to a blind spot of our recent article, ‘The Potential and Limitations of Artific…
The Concept of Harm in Medical Ethics
The concept of harm is central to medical ethics. In particular, it is frequently used in ethical deliberation about clinical cases and harm‐benefit analyses. Despite its significance, there has been surprisingly little discussion in practice about conceptual approaches and the nature of harm in medical ethics analyses. We examine how different conceptual accounts of harm shape ethical decision making through examples from clinical ethics consult…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Harm (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Philosophy of technology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Climate Change and Geoengineering (2 works)