Notes on Contributors vii // List of Abbreviations xi // Acknowledgments xiii // Editor fs Preface xv // PART I BOUNDARIES // 1 On the Significance of Understanding in Human-Robot Interaction 3 - Julia Knifka // 2 Making Sense of Empathy with Sociable Robots: A New Look at the “Imaginative Perception of Emotion” 19 - Josh Redstone // 3 Robots and the Limits of Morality 39 - Raffaele Rodogno // 4 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Robots, Sexuality, and the Arts of Being Human 57 - Charles M. Ess // PART II POTENTIAL // 5 Ethics Boards for Research in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence: Is it Too Soon to Act? 83 - John P. Sullins // 6 Technological Dangers and the Potential of Human-Robot Interaction: A Philosophical Investigation of Fundamental Epistemological Mechanisms of Discrimination 99 - Marco Norskov // 7 The Uncanny Valley: A Working Hypothesis 123 - Adriano Angelucci, Pierluigi Graziani, Maria Grazia Rossi // 8 Staging Lies: Performativity in the Human-Robot Theatre play 1, Worker 139 - Gunhild Borggreen // PART III CHALLENGES // 9 Robots, Humans, and the Borders of the Social World 157 - Hironori Matsuzaki // 10 The Diffuse Intelligent Other: An Ontology of Nonlocalizable Robots as Moral and Legal Actors 177 - Matthew E. Gladden // 11 Gendered by Design: Gender Codes in Social Robotics 199 - Glenda Shaw-Garlock // 12 Persuasive Robotic Technologies and the Freedom of Choice and Action 219 - Michele Rapoport