Personification of non‐humans is best understood as a strategy of dealing with the
uncertainty about the identity of the other, which moves the attribution scheme from …

Contemporary technology creates a proliferation of nonhuman artificial entities such as
robots and intelligent information systems. Sometimes they are called 'artificial agents'. But …

A singularly influential sense of 'material worlds' has been developed by actor‐network
theories of science and technology, which trace out the kind of social action that emerges …

Thinking about how the law might decide whether to extend legal personhood to artificial
agents provides a valuable testbed for philosophical theories of mind. Further, philosophical …

Conferring legal personhood on purely synthetic entities is a very real legal possibility, one
under consideration presently by the European Union. We show here that such legislative …

The paper examines the increasing relative social significance of the normative and
institutional complex of state law, particularly in relation to political structures of domination …

'Those are the facts, like it or not';'we have reached our decision, whether it pleases you or
not': the solidity of facts and the rigour of the law both have a kind of hardness which …

What exactly are intelligent agents in legal terms? Are we just looking at sophisticated
objects? Or should such systems be treated as legal persons, somewhat similar to humans …

Recent accounts of the relation between law and other social spheres have emphasized
law's" relative autonomy." The intuition behind the" relative autonomy" formula is that law is …

The growing prominence of computers in contemporary life, often seemingly with minds of
their own, invites rethinking the question of moral responsibility. If the moral responsibility for …