1. Toward a Comparative Theory of Agents Rafael Capurro International Center for Information Ethics (ICIE) FIS/ISIS 2015: Information Society at the Crossroads - Response and Responsibility of the Sciences of Information, Vienna University of Technology, June 5, 2015

2. Capurro: Agents20152 Overview 1. The concept of agent within the framework of Aristotelian philosophy 2. Subjectivity, personhood, and ownership in Kantian moral and legal philosophy. 3. Artificial and natural agents on the basis of biotechnology and ICT

3. Capurro: Agents20153 Aristotle Dynamis Action and life (praxis kai zoe) Celestial movers Human agents Practical Reason (dianoia praktiké) Human affairs (ta anthropina) Techne and poiesis; phronesis and praxis Automatoi instead of slaves Agents and patients

4. Capurro: Agents20154 Kant Kant‘s Copernican Revolution Intellectus archetypus and intellectus ectypus On being a member of the natural and the noumenal world On value and price On intellectual beings Creating artificial products What can be owned?

5. Capurro: Agents20155 Artificial Agents ICT and biotechnology On physical and digital robots What moves a robot? Networking humans (and robots) Matter matters On implanted moralities Bodies in technologies – technologies in bodies To be is to be digital Körper and Leib

6. Capurro: Agents20156 Conclusion Aristotle‘s metaphysics of substance – Kant‘s metaphysics of the subject Techno-metaphysics and transhumanisms Possible futures: an ethics of care

7. Capurro: Agents20157 Bibliography This PP is based on this text: Rafael Capurro: Toward a Comparative Theory of Agents. In: AI & Society, 27, 4 (2012), 479-488. http://www.capurro.de/agents.html