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Intimacy, technology and the return of magical thinking in contemporary Western culture

2015/19/D/HS1/00965

Keywords:

intimacy love sexuality technology robots internet magic culture

Descriptors:

  • HS1_5: Philosophy of human, theories of personality, philosophy of culture, social philosophy
  • HS2_14: Cultural studies (incl. contemporary cultural studies and cultural-anthropological studies)
  • HS1_6: Nature of human mind (incl. mind's evolution, bio-psychological conditions of cognition, artificial intelligence)

Panel:

HS1 - Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, Wydział Filozoficzny

woj. wielkopolskie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Maciej Musiał 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: SONATA 10 - announced on 2015-09-15

Amount awarded: 144 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2016-07-08

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-07-07

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (7)
  • Articles in post-conference publications (1)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (3)
  1. A comparison of naturalist and anti-naturalist explanations for why people consider robots as animate and experience emotions towards them
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał, Joanna Karolina Malinowska
    Academic press:
    Journal of Future Robot Life (rok: 2021, tom: -, strony: -), Wydawca: IOS Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3233/FRL-210002 - link to the publication
  2. Magia awatarów — o metamorfozie, animizmie i synkretyzmie w doświadczeniach i refleksjach dotyczących Second Life i rzeczywistości wirtualnej
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Academic press:
    Sensus Historiae (rok: 2019, tom: 34, strony: 41-51), Wydawca: Epigram
    Status:
    Published
  3. Designing (Artificial) People to Serve
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Academic press:
    Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence (rok: 2017, tom: 29, strony: 1087-1097), Wydawca: Taylor & Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/0952813X.2017.1309691 - link to the publication
  4. Obecność magii we współczesnej kulturze zachodniej
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Academic press:
    Filo-Sofija (rok: 2017, tom: 17/36, strony: 507-520), Wydawca: Epigram
    Status:
    Published
  5. Roboty społeczne – dwa bieguny i dwie płaszczyzny dyskusji
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Academic press:
    Czas kultury (rok: 2018, tom: 196, strony: 148-155), Wydawca: Stowarzyszenie Czasu Kultury
    Status:
    Published
  6. What does it mean to empathise with a robot?
    Authors:
    Joanna Karolina Malinowska
    Academic press:
    Minds and Machines (rok: 2021, tom: 31, strony: 361–376), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11023-021-09558-7 - link to the publication
  7. Supplementing ethical behaviourism. On John Danaher's theory, Jilles Smids's criticism and the problem of deception
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Academic press:
    Science and Enginering Ethics , Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Submitted
  1. Magical Thinking and Empathy Towards Robots, w: What Social Robots Can and Should Do. Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2016. (Eds.) J. Seibt, M. Nørskov, & S. Schack Andersen
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Conference:
    Robophilosophy 2016. What Social Robots Can and Should Do (rok: 2016, ), Wydawca: IOS Press
    Data:
    konferencja 17-21 listopad 2016
    Status:
    Published
  1. -
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Book:
    Enchanting Robots: Intimacy, Magic and Technology (rok: 2019, tom: -, strony: IX, 159), Wydawca: Palgrave Macmilllan
    Status:
    Published
  2. Automation and the Meaning of Life: A Sense of Achievement and Being with Others
    Authors:
    Maciej Musiał
    Book:
    Envisioning Robots in Society – Power, Politics, and Public Space. Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2018 / TRANSOR 2018 (rok: 2018, tom: ?, strony: 251-258), Wydawca: IOS Press
    Status:
    Published
  3. The Growing Need for Reliable Conceptual Analysis in HRI Studies: The Example of the Term 'Empathy'
    Authors:
    Joanna Karolina Malinowska
    Book:
    Culturally Sustainable Social Robotics. Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2020 / TRANSOR 2020 (rok: 2021, tom: nie dotyczy, strony: 96-104), Wydawca: IOS Press
    Status:
    Published