13:30-14:30 Derek Leben (U of Pittsburgh at Johnstown), "Ethics for Robots"

14:30-14:40 Coffee Break

14:40-15:40 Rebecca Davnall (U of Liverpool), "Moral Apparatus: Thought Experiments, Futurist Fictions and the Manifestation of Agency"

Most of the work in the ethics of autonomous vehicles has so far concentrated on the variety of Trolley problems that arise in this area. However, it is time to move beyond these issues. We are inviting papers from social scientists, engineers, as well as philosophers that would explore, among others, the following issues:

- how the algorithms in autonomous vehicles might embed ethical assumptions in cases other than crash scenarios;

- how autonomous vehicles might interact with human drivers in mixed or “hybrid” traffic environments;

- how autonomous vehicles might reshape our cities and landscapes;

- what unique security or privacy concerns are raised by autonomous vehicles;

- whether long times spend in autonomous vehicles might lead to new kinds of alienation or loneliness;

- how the benefits and burdens of this new technology will be distributed throughout society.

Program committee members include:

• Dr. David Cerny, The Institute of State and Law, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
• Dr. Tomas Hribek, Institute of Philosophy, the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague
• Dr. Daniel Novotný, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice
• Others to be announced

Scientific Committee members include:

• Prof. Patrick Lin, California State University, San Luis Obispo
• Prof. Jiří Wiedermann, Institute of Computer Science, the Czech Academy of Sciences
• Prof. Colin Allen, University of Pittsburgh
• Dr. Ján Matejka, Institute of State and Law, Czech the Academy of Sciences
• Others to be announced

Please send your abstracts (max. 1000 words) as a PDF file by December 31, 2018 to david.cerny@ilaw.cas.cz. You will be notifed of acceptance by February 1, 2019. You can also direct your inquiries concerning the conference at hribek@flu.cas.cz.

The 8th Ernst Mach Workshop -- a two-day event organized annually by the Department of Analytic Philosophy, the Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague -- will be co-sponsored by the Karel Čapek Center for Values in Science and Technology. The theme of the 2019 workshop will be metaphysical and ethial issues in artificial intelligence. The keynote speakers are the world-renowned experts in the fields of philosophy of mind and technology Prof. Susan Schneider (University of Connecticut) and Prof. Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Vienna). In celebration of Prof. Schneider's recently completed new book, we have decided to call the event "Future Minds."