There’s nothing like discovering an entire volume of a journal that covers your topic of interest – especially on early Monday mornings. First, there’s joy similar to that of treasure hunters finding a box of treasure. Then, the reality of your limited reading speed and lack of reading time strikes you and takes away a big chunk of the joy.

IRIE, the International Review of Information Ethics, was one such journal for me this morning. It had covered the topic of ethics in robotics in 2006, where the following thirteen papers were published. (Scroll down for link to the journal issue)

• Gianmarco Veruggio, Fiorella Operto: Roboethics: a Bottom-up Interdisciplinary Discourse in the Field of Applied Ethics in Robotics

• Peter M. Asaro: What Should We Want From a Robot Ethic?

• Alistair S. Duff: Neo-Rawlsian Co-ordinates: Notes on A Theory of Justice for the Information Age

• John P. Sullins: When Is a Robot a Moral Agent?

• Brian R. Duffy: Fundamental Issues in Social Robotics

• Barbara Becker: Social Robots – Emotional Agents: Some Remarks on Naturalizing Man-Machine Interaction

• Dante Marino and Guglielmo Tamburrini: Learning Robots and Human Responsibility

• C. K. M. Crutzen: Invisibility and the Meaning of Ambient Intelligence

• Stefan Krebs: On the Anticipation of Ethical Conflicts between Humans and Robots in Japanese Mangas

• Maren Krähling: In Between Companion and Cyborg: The Double Diffracted Being Elsewhere of a Robodog

• Naho Kitano: Rinri‘: An Incitement towards the Existence of Robots in Japanese Society

• Miguel Angel Perez Alvarez: Robotics and development of intellectual abilities in children

• Dirk Söffker und Jutta Weber: On Designing Machines and Technologies in the 21st Century. An Interdisciplinary Dialogue.

Link to IRIE Vol 6. Ethics in Robotics Issue.