SelectedWorks - Patrick Lin

Selected Works of Patrick Lin

Professor, Philosophy

Biosketch here: https://philosophy.calpoly.edu/faculty/patrick-lin

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Biosketch here: https://philosophy.calpoly.edu/faculty/patrick-lin

Present	Director, Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Present	Professor, Philosophy, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Philosophy and Ethics and Political Philosophy

Political & Social Philosophy and Ethics

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Articles (11)

Robot ethics: Mapping the issues for a mechanized world

Artificial Intelligence (2011)

Patrick Lin, Keith Abney and George Bekey

As with other emerging technologies, advanced robotics brings with it new ethical and policy challenges. This paper will describe the ...

Ethical Blowback from Emerging Technologies

Journal of Military Ethics (2010)

The military is a major driver of technological, world-changing innovations which,like the Internet, often have unpredictable dual uses and widespread ...

Ethics of Human Enhancement: 25 Questions & Answers

Studies in Ethics, Law, and Technology (2010)

Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin, James Moor and John Weckert

This paper presents the principal findings from a three-year research project funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) on ...

Four Haikus of the Technological Apocalypse

Ethics of Human Enhancement: An Executive Summary

Science and Engineering Ethics (2009)

Fritz Allhoff, Patrick Lin and Jesse Steinberg

With multi-year funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), a team of researchers has just released a comprehensive report ...

Autonomous Military Robotics: Risk, Ethics, and Design

Philosophy (2008)

Patrick Lin, George Bekey and Keith Abney

Untangling the Debate: The Ethics of Human Enhancement

Nanoethics (2008)

Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff

Human enhancement, in which nanotechnology is expected to play a major role, continues to be a highly contentious ethical debate, ...

Against Unrestricted Human Enhancement

Journal of Evolution & Technology (2008)

Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff

The defining debate in this new century will be about technology and human enhancement, according to many across the political ...

Nanotechnology Bound: Evaluating the Case for More Regulation

Nanoethics (2007)

In continuing news, there is a growing debate on whether current laws and regulations, both in the US and abroad, ...

Nanoethics and Human Enhancement: A Critical Evaluation of Recent Arguments

Nanotechnology Perceptions (2006)

Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff

Human enhancement – our ability to use technology to enhance our bodies and minds, as opposed to its application for ...

Viewpoint: Look Before Taking Another Leap For Mankind- Ethical and ...

Astropolitics (2006)

Commercial space travel is looking more like a real possibility than science fiction, but tied to that ambition we may ...

Ethics of Hacking Back: 6 Arguments from Armed Conflict to ...

It is widely believed that a cyberattack victim should not “hack back” against attackers. Among the chief worries are that ...

Enhanced Warfighters: Risk, Ethics, and Policy

A report on military human enhancements.

Contribution to Book

Why Ethics Matters for Autonomous Cars.pdf

Autonomous Driving (2015)

In Daimler and Benz Foundation's book "Autonomous Driving" ("Autonomes Fahren").

Contribution to Book

Robots in War: Issues of Risk and Ethics

Ethics and Robotics (2009)

Patrick Lin, George A. Bekey and Keith Abney

War robots clearly hold tremendous advantages-from saving the lives of our own soldiers, to safely defusing roadside bombs, to operating ...

Contribution to Book

Introduction: Nanotechnology, Society, and Ethics

Nanotechnology & Society: Current and Emerging Ethical Issues (2008)

Patrick Lin and Fritz Allhoff