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Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?

In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971), explaining and predicting others’ behaviour with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance) allows efficient social interaction. Today we also routinely interact with artificial agents: from Apple’s Siri to GPS navigation systems. In the near future, we might start casually interacting with robots. This paper addresses the question of whether ado

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Published: 15 March 2019
Source: OpenAlex
Category: Research
Topics: Agents & autonomy · Environment
Retrieved: 14 July 2026

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ethics.ai (15 March 2019), “Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?,” evidence record 8658, https://ethics.ai/record/8658 (originally published by OpenAlex).

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