Friendship is an important part of the good life. While many roboticists are eager to create
friendlike robots, many philosophers and ethicists are concerned. They argue that robots …

Critics have argued that human-controlled avatar interactions fail to facilitate the kinds of
expressivity and social understanding afforded by our physical bodies. We identify three …

Living well in the 21st century will present human beings with a unique set of demands and
ethical challenges, many of which will require a rapid response to developments in the …

How do we assign values to virtual items, which include virtual objects, properties, events,
subjects, worlds, environments, and experiences? In this article, I offer a framework for …

In a special issue of “Ethics and Information Technology”(September 2012), various
philosophers have discussed the notion of online friendship. The preferred framework of …

Although the possibility of virtue friendship (friendship according to the Aristotelian ideal)
has been studied both in online friendship and in friendship with artificial companions (ACs) …

This paper adds ammunition to recent arguments for the possibility of online character
friendships in the Aristotelian sense. It does so by exploring sustained and deep email …

Purpose Social connections are essential for the development of life skills for youth. Youth
with disabilities have long faced barriers to meaningful social connections. The onset of …

The possibility of online Aristotelian virtue friendships via social network sites continues to
be raised by philosophers, but as yet this has not been positioned within the realm of …

Peace is usually studied through nation-states operating in the international system, but
recently, peace scholars have underscored the need to research peace as a part of …